Romania: Approaches and Limits of Economic History

Bogdan Murgescu (), Matei Gheboianu () and Ionuț-Mircea Marcu ()
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Bogdan Murgescu: University of Bucharest
Matei Gheboianu: University of Bucharest
Ionuț-Mircea Marcu: University of Bucharest

Chapter Chapter 8 in Behind the Iron Curtain, 2023, pp 223-246 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In spite of Marxist ideology, economic history remained understudied in communist Romania. Most Romanian historians paid lip-service to the official dogmas and produced only conventional studies that did not add to the knowledge of economic history. Significant exceptions were some scholars educated in the interwar period, who managed to take advantage of the openings in reviving the academic relations with the West in the late 1950s and in the 1960s. The Romanian case studies focuses on historian Andrei Oțetea (1894–1977) and economist Gheorghe Zane (1897–1978), as well as on the few instances Romanian scholars participated at the international economic history congresses organized by IEHA. It highlights both the contributions of the mentioned scholars to economic history research in Romania, the methodological limitations of their approach, and the impediments in building up an integrated and autonomous field of economic history.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-31578-7_8

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