THE ROMANIAN YMCA AND THE INTERWAR STUDENT MOVEMENTS: THE CASE OF THE CHRISTIAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION’S BULLETIN (1923–1928) Cover Image

„ASOCIAȚIA CREȘTINĂ A TINERILOR” DIN ROMÂNIA ȘI MIȘCĂRILE STUDENȚEȘTI INTERBELICE: CAZUL BULETINULUI ASOCIAȚIEI STUDENȚILOR CREȘTINI DIN BUCUREȘTI
THE ROMANIAN YMCA AND THE INTERWAR STUDENT MOVEMENTS: THE CASE OF THE CHRISTIAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION’S BULLETIN (1923–1928)

Author(s): Ionuţ Biliuţă
Subject(s): Social history, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Institutul de Cercetări Socio-Umane Gheorghe Şincai al Academiei Române
Keywords: YMCA; Asociația Studenților Creștini din România; Interwar Americanization; Nationalism; Wilsonian plan; Orthodox Church; Interwar Romania; Fascism;

Summary/Abstract: The present text discusses the Americanization of a Romanian student organization, the Association of the Christian Students from Romania, through the official bulletin of the Bucharest branch. The text argues that, although the Wilsonian plan of pacification and Bolshevik containment as exercised through missionary bodies such as YMCA/YWCA or student Christian organizations initially worked in the Romanian society, eventually the Romanian student initiative known as ASCR succumbed under the pressure of xenophobic nationalism.

  • Issue Year: 25/2022
  • Issue No: 25
  • Page Range: 13-20
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian