Ideologie și literatură în comunism (studiu de caz: 23 August 1944
Ideology and literature in communism (case study: August 23, 1944)

Summary/Abstract: Along with historians, Romanian writers (prose writers, poets and playwrights) contributed to the consolidation of the communist regime in Romania, agreed to promote communist doctrine through their works, being sensitive to ideological changes promoted by the communist party. As the literary critic and historian Nicolae Manolescu states, in essence, it is about the instrumentalization of art, deliberately put in the service of communist ideology. Under communism, art was obliged to persuade, educate and manipulate.Our goal is to analyze the way in which literature was „stained” by the communist ideology, taking as a case study the historical act of August 23, 1944. The writers made „August 23” an important theme of Romanian literature during the communist period. In general, the writers reflected in their works the official view of the „armed insurrection”. Of course, the changes in the system of party propaganda options over the half century in which the communists were in power were also reflected in the historical Romanian literature.

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