Cotroceni Palace Symbol of the Propaganda of the Communist Regime From Romania in the Years 1948 - 1977

Ioana Dragulin ()
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Ioana Dragulin: Ph.D., Muzeul National Cotroceni, Romania

Anuarul Universitatii „Petre Andrei” din Iasi / Year-Book „Petre Andrei” University from Iasi, Fascicula: Drept, Stiinte Economice, Stiinte Politice / Fascicle: Law, Economic Sciences, Political Sciences, 2020, vol. 26, 76-110

Abstract: World War II produced a major shift in global power relations and led to the emergence of bipolarism. The agreements reached by the Allies in Yalta in February 1945 sanctioned the USSR's rule over Eastern Europe. In this context, the takeover of political power and the changes imposed in the economy by the communists in Romania, with the direct help of the USSR was a logical consequence. All the events that took place in Romania between August 23, 1944 and December 31, 1947 were part of the logic of communizing the Romanian society and state on the Soviet model. The communization of Romania followed a path that provided for the invalidation of the liberal, democratic, bourgeois, capitalist model of society and the imposition of another communist, undemocratic, egalitarian, totalitarian model. In order to achieve this goal, measures had been brutally applied to restrict citizens' rights, both politically and in terms of expression or property. In this context, the change of the historical role of the Royal Palace from Cotroceni to the Palace of the Pioneers was part of the propagandistic activity of a totalitarian regime which, in the absence of popular legitimacy, by vote, had to "fabricate" a history to legitimize it in front of the Romanian people.

Keywords: World War II; the communization of Romania; Royal Palace; Palace of the Pioneers; popular legitimacy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K1 K2 K4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.18662/upalaw/50

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