PROPAGANDA SI ACTIUNI ANTIALCOOLICE ÎN ROMÂNIA INTERBELICA
PROPAGANDA AND ANTIALCOHOL ACTIVITIES IN INTERWAR ROMANIA

Summary/Abstract: The present inquiry tries to analyze the topic of propaganda and multiple measures against alcoholism patterns during the interwar Romania. There are many historical sources regarding this and a survey of these seems to be a very complicate one. We can notice for those times that the existence of a multiple discourses on this topic is an expression of different adopted laws, actions of Romanian Orthodox Church, actions of “Astra” society and so on. The main consequence of the interwar romanian propaganda and due to the actions against alcoholism was the foundation in 1929 of Temperanta League. This league tried to be the best tool in the „war” against alcoholism and in 1937 it became part of the Romanian Health Minister. On the other hand, during that period, the patterns of alcoholism became more and more a medicalized issue and the entire discourse against it tried to make the Romanian society more sensitive regarding the threat of a alcohol addiction. Also, the influence of western patterns of those times (i. e. American laws of prohibition) had a strong echo in Romanian interwar society.

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