Viata cotidiana in comunism - Frica de zi cu zi
Daily life in Communism - The Day to Day Fear

Summary/Abstract: Two elements of everyday life in communist Romania during the eighties, the Food shortages and the absence of house heating, are considered as causes of fear for most of the people. This fear can be analysed as a form of anxiety, thus being modified by the ego Defence mechanisms. The social context also influences it, especially the totalitarian rule, whose principle of government is terror. Evident during the overt violence periods generated by the regime, Terror can also have more subtle forms. The social effect of terror is the disorganizing of large groups, their transformation into masses. The individual effect is the abandoning of confrontation with danger, and passivity. There is a link between these two effects, allowing to distinguish a latent form of terror, close to fear, from the manifest form.

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