Problema elaborării tratatelor de istorie națională în România. O analiză asupra scrierii istoriei oficiale în timpul regimul comunist
On the national history treatises elaborating in Romania. An analysis concerning the official history writting during the communist regime

Summary/Abstract: The present study offers a historiographic and ideological interpretation of the first four volumes of the History of Romania treatise published under the rule of the late Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, between 1960-1964. I argue that historians involved in this project, far from succeeding to accomplish a full-scale marxist revolutionary breakthrough in Romanian postwar historiography, have mannaged in the end to offer an original hybrid narrative of the Nation`s past, packed not only with marxist and leninist formulas, but also with ideas and themes specific to the traditional prewar Romanian historical writing. In the second section of my contribution, by exploring a wealth of archival sources and a number of four oral history interviews which I have conducted between 2009-2011, I present the fate of the following volumes of this work which, although having been completed by the end of the 1960s, have never been published under communism.

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