O FANTOMĂ ROȘIE BÂNTUIE UN IMPERIU ALBASTRU. RĂSPUNSURI PERFORMATIVE ȘI CONSTATIVE LA PROVOCĂRI IDEOLOGICE
A RED GHOST HAUNTS A BLUE EMPIRE. PERFORMATIVE AND OBSERVIVE RESPONSES TO IDEOLOGICAL CHALLENGES

Summary/Abstract: Has the theatricality-as-reaction to the communist oppression disappeared from the social and cultural discourse? Has the freedom of speech been completely freed of performativity? It is obvious that western democracies have a different profile than the fresher eastern ones. The past "performativity" of the communist societies has turned towards a new "constative" agenda. Nostalgia and memory haunt the former communist area. Neoliberalism with its ruthless economic approach is stronger in the southeastern part of Europe and foments, after thirty years of freedom deprived of a true system of social protection, frustration and naive adoration of recent past dictatorial history. Some references to the Romanian, Russian, Slovenian and Serbian post-communist societies highlight some common social and economic data, regardless of their integration into various international structures. Collective memories are reinvented and are fueled by similar challenges.

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