Cultural Publications and the “Memory” of Ideological Attachments. Case Study: The Familia Journal—Series II–IV (1926–1944)
Cultural Publications and the “Memory” of Ideological Attachments. Case Study: The Familia Journal—Series II–IV (1926–1944)

Summary/Abstract: Series II, III, and IV of the Familia magazine offer eloquent material for analyzing the ideological alignments imposed on Romanian elites by authoritarian and dictatorial regimes. By the late 1930s and early 1940s, politically obedient editorial policies had been firmly established. Following the Great Union, the Romanianization policy promoted in the newly integrated territories of the Kingdom of Romania found both a supporter and a mouthpiece in Familia, under the leadership of Mihail G. Samarineanu, a Macedonian-Romanian with right-wing, even far-right, views. World War II and the turmoil of 1940, marked by painful territorial losses, deepened a sense of despair and confusion, during which Familia served the propaganda interests of the time. The legacy of these ideological alignments lingers in the pages of the publication, like a palimpsest that casts a shadow over the entire editorial output and the underlying editorial policy.

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