CONSTANTIN STERE AND HIS ORIGINAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE MORDERNIZATION OF ROMANIA
CONSTANTIN STERE AND HIS ORIGINAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE MORDERNIZATION OF ROMANIA

Summary/Abstract: In the first two decades of the 20th century, Romania underwent a series of deep changes which came to an end, after the dramatic war experience, in 1918 with the Grand Union. At the same time, the academic sphere, the media, the political and cultural realms were all engaged in an ample and lively debate of ideas on the reforms which needed to be urgently implemented for the settlement of several acute economic and social issues. However, the intellectual elites of the time took up broader topics as well, embedded in a theoretical horizon, such as the modernization strategies and their adequacy to the Romanian specificity. A prominent figure of the political events and of the ideological debates of the epoch was Constantin Stere, a complex personality, thinker, publicist, politician and ardent fighter for the national union of Romanians. In his published articles, in his parliamentary discourses and in his writings, Stere fervently pleaded for the implementation of some vital reforms for the modernization of the country (land reform - transferring property from large landowners to peasants, universal vote etc.). He initiated and supported an ample cultural and political trend, known as Poporanism and proposed an agrarian economic and social model for Romania. It is worth quoting some of his texts and deciphering their meaning in the current context.

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