Bibliotecile în regimuri totalitare
The Libraries in Totalitarian Regimes

Summary/Abstract: In the 20th century, the majority of the European countries had totalitarian or authoritarian regimes. In every case (fascism, Nazism or communism), libraries had a lot to suffer: they were used as centers of ideological indoctrination and many collections war dismantled. The interference, in the case of the institutions part of the information system, lies in the similarities between the totalitarian regimes that operated with the same means of oppression and used them to impose their ideology. For this reason, we wanted to identify the areas of interference and how they manifested themselves in totalitarian regimes. In this paper we tried to show the similarities between the libraries from the fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, the former Yugoslavia, Poland, Eastern Germany and Romania. Our research started from a series of articles about libraries from countries ruled by unique, dictatorial political parties. We traced the causes which determined libraries to change their mission, to adapt and to reorganize their work to the new political conditions. The librarians were selected considering their adhesion and loyalty to the political power. The new rules imposed to the libraries created even new library terms, not officially acknowledged, such as Giftshrank, Spetshran, Fond Secret, still used nowadays.

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