THE NATIONALISTIC DISCOURSE IN COMMUNIST ROMANIA. A GENERAL PERSPECTIVE
THE NATIONALISTIC DISCOURSE IN COMMUNIST ROMANIA. A GENERAL PERSPECTIVE

Summary/Abstract: This paper offers a general analysis on internal and external political conditions that facilitated the inclusion of national problem in the political discourse of the Romanian Communist Party, on the one hand and also the way in which this evolution influenced the development of the communist regime, on the other hand. On this respect, our paper reveals also the main instruments used by Romanian propaganda in order to spread its nationalist message to the people. The appeal to national discourse was mainly determined by the dispute between Romanian Workers’ Party and Soviet Communist Party occurred in the beginning of the ‘60s regarding the Romanian strategy for socialist development. On this respect, the appeal to the nation and national interests was used by the Workers’ Party to sustain the industrialization of Romania, for the leaders considered that industrialization is the only valid solution for development and socialist modernization. During Nicolae Ceauşescu’s regime, mainly after his speech in 1968, August 22, discourse about nation became a turning point for politics, culture and history. So the Communist Party and particularly Nicolae Ceauşescu were regarded as saviors of independence and national sovereignty, according to the patterns established by Marx and Lenin. In the same time, the insertion of the national theme in the official political discourse determined a new interpretation of the whole Romanian history regarding the popular conscious and ceaseless struggle for national independence. This offers to the Communist Party necessary reasons for defending the superiority of Romanian people, such as Protochronism and Tracology as a distinct branch of national history. Simultaneously, official projects as Cântarea României National Festival or Daciada were used to serve achieving the nationalist aims of Romanian Communist Party.

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