Preluarea Academiei Române de către regimul totalitar comunist
The Totalitarian Communist Regime’s Takeover of the Romanian Academy

Summary/Abstract: On June 9, 1948, a presidential decree ruled that the “highest scientific and cultural forum” was to become the Academy of the Romanian People’s Republic and, at the same time, a “state institution.” The obligation was thus laid out for the Academy to “conduct its activity in keeping with the requirements of strengthening and developing the RPR.” It was to promote science and culture “in all fields” and that was to be done “with a view to raising the material and cultural level of the people.” The new regime established on December 30, 1947 thus came to control the Romanian Academy. Its independence, observed for more than eight decades, was a thing of the past. The Academy became one of the state institutions, the decree disregarding the decisions of its latest general session. Subsequently, Stalin’s death brought a certain relaxation, the effects of which would also mark the activity of the Academy of the People’s Republic of Romania.

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