Scriitorii români și limitele liberalizării, 1965-1971
Romanian Writers and the Limits of Liberalization, 1965-1971

Summary/Abstract: The liberalization that occurred in the early stages of the Ceaușescu regime marked all areas, the cultural one included. The developments of 1965-1971 decisively contributed to cultural progress in Romania and to this country’s opening on the world. Romanian writers published more books and more translations from world literature were issued. International contacts also multiplied. Yet the liberalization had its limits, the most obvious being the censorship and the surveillance of the intelligentsia by the political police, these being instruments the totalitarian state could not give up without endangering its own existence. The close watch kept over the Romanian authors during the most liberal period in the history of communism in Romania was an indication that the repressive nature of the regime hadn’t really mellowed.

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