Impactul războiului rece asupra istoriografiei românești
The Impact of the Cold War on Romanian Historiography

Summary/Abstract: During the Cold War, history was used in the propaganda against Western states and to glorify the Soviet Union and its leaders. Many historians were involved in this propaganda, providing mystified accounts of the past and writing history as the political interests of the moment dictated. Upright historians like Constantin Daicoviciu also took part in this campaign but most of those involved were impostors who had no qualms about distorting the past. When the Soviet troops were withdrawn from Romania in 1968 and relations with the Western world (France and Italy in the first place) were resumed, ideological pressure relaxed somewhat, but real freedom was still impossible under a totalitarian regime.

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