Patapievici and Modernity: Few Thoughts on "Omul Recent" and the Liquidity of Modernity (original) (raw)

Keywords of Romanian Post-Socialism

RO_Archive An Archive of Romania in Times of Transition

Obviously, any list that tries to map in condensed form the most significant dynamics to have marked such a long period—twenty-five years of post-communism; almost everybody knows when it began, but almost nobody knows when it might end or what descriptive meanings it might have—must accept some limits. The limits of the bestiary I here propose are circumscribed by the topics I have researched and about which I have written over the last ten years in my doctoral thesis and in Martor, Tataia, and Dilema Veche magazines. For the sake of minimal coherence, I have tried to strike a balance between the key processes that have affected the public and the domestic space and which have reshaped them materially and socially.

The Political Regrouping of the Romanian Nomenklatura during the 1989 Revolution

The present study is an analysis of the political regrouping of the former Romanian communist elite during the 1989 Revolution. The purpose of the research is to show that, although the revolutionary events appeared to be a break-up of the old social and political hierarchies, the former communist elite preserved an important degree of political power and succeeded in dominating the decision-making process within the provisional political institutions created in the very moment of the revolution. The analysis focuses on the ways and scale of the political survival of the former members of Nomenklatura during the Romanian Revolution.

Fieldwork in Socialist Romania: The UMASS Romanian Research Group

STUDIA UBB SOCIOLOGIA, 63 (LXIII), 2, 2018

This special issue of Studia Universitatis Babes‐Bolyai Sociologia originates from the panel “Shaping the Field of Romanian Studies: American & Romanian Scholars at Work” chaired by Vintilă Mihăilescu and organized by Iuliu Rațiu at the Conference of the Society for Romanian Studies (SRS), Bucharest 26‐29 June, 2018. In line with the general theme of the conference, “#Romania100: Looking Forward through the Past”, the participants, all of whom had done research in Romania, were invited to present their views on what shaped the field of Romanian Studies, with a focus on academic exchanges and the mutual influence between international and Romanian scholars. Three participants in this panel, László Fosztó, David Kideckel, and Steven Sampson have submitted their revised presentations for this issue. Another panel member, Sam Beck, was unable to attend. Viorel Anăstăsoaie attended the panel; finally, Steven Randall did not attend the panel but graciously accepted later to reflect back on his fieldwork experience.

National Ideology in the Socialist Republic of Romania.docx

The aim of this essay is to show the radical national ideology that was present in Romania, in a time when the Romanian Communist Party (“Partidul Comunist Romanesc”) possessed all the legal, judicial and administrative power in the state. The support text, on which I will base my essay, is the speech that President Nicolae Ceaușescu gave on August 21, 1968 in Bucharest in the Square of the Republican Palace. With this speech Ceaușescu gained the love of his people, their adoration – afterwards a cult of personality emerged worshiping the President, Nicolae Ceaușescu.

Perennialism and Modernism in Romanian National-Communism. An Ideological Dilemma

This article analyzes the theories of nationalism incorporated into the national-communist discourse active in Romania between 1965 and 1969. Although insisting upon its Marxist ideological core, Romanian national-communist discourse did not, however, embrace the Marxist vision upon nations and nationalism, namely modernism. Furthermore, its vision in this regard, primordialist perenialism, was typical of right-wing, even extreme right-wing ideologies. How was that possible is the main question of the following pages.