Distorsiuni ideologico-istoriografice ale participării României la Primul Război Mondial în România anilor ’50
Ideological-historiographical distortions of Romania’s participation in the First World War in Romania of the 50s

Summary/Abstract: The 50s represented par excellence the timeframe of the Stalinist “cultural revolution” in Romania. From a historiographic perspective, it led to a massive elimination of the old structures of the historians’ guild, to the dramatic reconfiguration in terms of both topic and contents of the Romanian historical science. In this program, coordinated by Mihail Roller – a historian of the party and a genuine dictator of historical science in that period (1948-1958– the moment of December 1st, 1918 suffered even more than other identity instances of national history deep distortions under the matrix of “proletarian internationalism”. Between 1948 until the late 60s, December 1st, 1918 suffered metamorphoses that included successive layers (with ebbs and flows) of a nihilist-Stalinist nature, from absolute silence to the full incrimination of generating (and decision-making) political factors of this event. The Stalinist-rollerist historians have used, in turns, a specific linguistic and semantic lexicon: “bourgeoisie”, “imperialist war”, “adventurism”, “exploitation”, “national chauvinism”. However, the historiographic universe within the “obsessive decade” was not linear and it cannot be explained in exclusively Manichean terms as a fight between “good and truth”, on one hand (the “national-liberal”, “patriotic”, “anti-Cominternist” line) and “bad and false” (Stalinist rollerism), on the other hand.

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