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THE PUBLISHING ACTIVITY OF THE ROMANIAN EXILE IN SPAIN. AN INTRODUCTION
THE PUBLISHING ACTIVITY OF THE ROMANIAN EXILE IN SPAIN. AN INTRODUCTION

Author(s): Brigitta Lutyán
Subject(s): Media studies, Romanian Literature, Politics and communication, History of Communism, Migration Studies
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: Romanian exile; Spain; resistance; anti-communist propaganda; journals;

Summary/Abstract: Following the installation of the Communist regime in Romania, intellectuals, politicians of the old regime, members or sympathizers of the Iron Guard were chased by the new power. To avoid the harsh punishments, they had to leave their homes and to go in exile. Franco's Spain, due it's anticommunist policy, was chosen by an important number of Romanian exiled, especially by the members of the Iron Guard. Once settled, the Romanians stared an intense activity of founding and publishing journals and newspapers. Its main aim was to maintain the unity, the identity and the culture among the exiled. But above all, the papers were used as a mean of the resistance through culture and anti-communist propaganda. This article proposes to introduce the reader in the their world via a few representative journals of the Romanian exile in Spain: „Libertatea Românească", „Libertatea", „Carpații", „Destinŗ and „FAPTA".

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 748-754
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian