Communism in the Romanian Press during the Economic Crisis
Communism in the Romanian Press during the Economic Crisis

Summary/Abstract: In our study we analyze the press discourse about communism 20 years after the big collapse. Even from the first years after the revolution in the Romanian society a nostalgic trend appeared concerning the communism. First, this current was a form of continuity because some communist personalities, some ideas, even some workers parties appeared on the public scene. After this period – in 2000 – we could talk, at the social level, about a representation of communism, or, more precisely, a representation of the communist period as an alternative to the new economic reality. During these years, we could read in the press about communism only as a historical period that came to an end. A very particular issue appears in 2010, during the economic crisis. On the one hand, as the polls show, a considerable part of the Romanian society shows itself as a nostalgic society for communism. On the other hand, the press begins to look for resemblances, for analogies between the actual authority and the communist authority. In our study we selected the most popular news sites and we studied the way in which the Romanian journalists try to explain the actions of the authorities through a series of signs considered as communist signs.

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