National Ideology Under Socialism: Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceausescu's RomaniaThe current transformation of many Eastern European societies is impossible to understand without comprehending the intellectual struggles surrounding nationalism in the region. Anthropologist Katherine Verdery shows how the example of Romania suggests that current ethnic tensions come not from a resurrection of pre-Communist Nationalism but from the strengthening of national ideologies under Communist Party rule. |
Contents
Ideology Cultural Politics Intellectuals | 1 |
FRAMEWORKS | 16 |
National Ideology and Cultural Politics | 27 |
Romanticism Dacianism and the National | 36 |
Modeling Socialism and Socialist Cultural Politics | 72 |
3 | 91 |
The Suppression and Reassertion of National Values | 98 |
Why National Ideology? | 121 |
The Birth of Protochronism | 174 |
Horeas Revolt | 215 |
The Debate over Horeas Revolt | 224 |
The Centralization of Historiography under | 240 |
Historiography in a Party Mode | 248 |
The School of Philosopher Constantin Noica | 256 |
The Battle over Noica as a Contest | 266 |
From Cultural Creation to Political Action | 287 |
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