Transnational activism against heritage destruction as a human rights violation in Romania before and after 1989

Laura Demeter

Revue d'études comparatives Est-Ouest, 2020, vol. N° 2-3, issue 2, 121-150

Abstract: This article examines transnational mobilisations on both sides of the Iron Curtain against the destruction of heritage in Romania during Nicolae Ceau?escu?s regime and their post-1989 afterlives. By the end of the 1980s, various campaigns led to the creation of a UNESCO mission that assessed the state of built heritage and set a precedent in the communist bloc by calling out the Romanian regime at the UN for its human rights violations. The paper shows how these initiatives, too, contributed to the delegitimisation of Ceau?escu by framing heritage destruction as a human right infringed upon by communist authorities. Yet, despite international echoes before 1989, these mobilisations had little impact on the process of dealing with the past in post-communism.

Keywords: transnational solidarity; human rights; heritage destruction; Romania; communism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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