Arhiva CNSAS, istoria socială şi aspecte neglijate ale înscrisurilor din dosarele fostei Securităţi
The CNSAS Archive, Social History, and Overlooked Aspects about the Securitate Files

Summary/Abstract: The article explores the content of an operational file in the CNSAS archive from the perspective of social history. Topics without major political or historiographical implications, such as, mismanagement of collective farms or relations with foreign nationals are assembled into a narrative that provides the reader of the Securitate (Romanian political police) file with a window into the various characteristics of everyday life of a township in Dobrudja during the 1980s. Critical issues for the work of the Securitate – the categories of people under surveillance, the social tensions in the community and their causes – are presented briefly and fragmentarily. The article takes a bottom-up historiographical approach to the study of the communist regime in Romania. The emerging image is complex, blurred and incomplete, mirroring two general features of the last decade of communist rule: the dissatisfaction of ordinary people and the scarcity of resources, ubiquitous including in the activity of the Securitate.

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