EȘECUL PUBLICĂRII UNUI ARTICOL DE JÜRGEN KOCKA ÎN „STUDII ȘI ARTICOLE DE ISTORIE”
THE FAILURE TO PUBLISH AN ARTICLE OF JÜRGEN KOCKA IN THE JOURNAL „STUDII ȘI ARTICOLE DE ISTORIE”

Summary/Abstract: In 2000 the journal „Studii și articole de istorie” planned to publish a set of articles taking stock of the historical experience of the 20th century. In this context, the proposal to include an article written by the German historian Jürgen Kocka (for which there was already a Romanian translation available) was rejected by then-president Ioan Scurtu, with the argument that Romanian historians „have more profound knowledge and can produce better argued assessments”. Besides documenting the concrete case, the article connects the incident with the more general context of the traditionalist counter-offensive against attempts to re-think history in post-communist Romania, and of the conflicts inside the Romanian Society for Historical Sciences. It also highlights the magnitude of the damage done by such self-sufficient attitudes.

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