Rewriting and remembering Romanian communism
Some controversial issues
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11047657 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Monica Ciobanu (0000-0001-8860-5415, State University of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 205-221 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nationalities Papers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00905992.2010.549472 |
| OpenAlex | W2073558412 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 12 |
This article examines the dynamic relationship between the two major dimensions of memory and justice in the context of post-communist countries: truth-telling and retroactive justice. This interdependent and uneasy relationship is illustrated by recent attempts at constructing a new historical narrative of the communist past in Romania in the wake of the de-secretization of the files of both the Communist Party and the communist secret police (Securitate). A systematic analysis of the activity of institutions that have been directly involved in research and public education about the recent past – the National Archives, the National Council for the Study of Securitate's Archives, and the Institute for the Investigation of Crimes of Communism – is undertaken. The work of these three institutional actors shows a direct relationship between truth-telling in its various forms (access to archives, opening the files and exhumations) and any subsequent retroactive justice and restitution. The main argument of the paper is that while deep-seated dichotomies between former communist and anti-communists in addressing the past still persist, a more nuanced way of seeing the regime that explores the ambiguous line that divides outright repression from cooptation is emerging
Argument (complex analysis · Communism · Communist state · Context (archaeology · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Romanian · Sociology · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
Secret Police Files, Tangled Life Narratives
What’s done is done”
Wounded Place‐Based Memories in Romania
Postmemory sits in places
On political heritage
Reconstructing the History of Early Communism and Armed Resistance in Romania
Reckoning with the Communist Past in Romania
Resettlement, intergenerational memory, place attachment, and place identity in Roșia Jiu coal mine - Gorj County, Romania
Recuperative memory in Romanian post-Communist society
Place and the spatial politics of intergenerational remembrance of the Iron Gates displacements in Romania, 1966–1972
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |