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Transitional Politics of Memory: Political Strategies of Managing the Past in Post-communist Romania

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  • Mihai Stelian Rusu

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The article develops a typology of political strategies of coming to terms with the past as a theoretical frame of reference against which it assesses the transitional politics of memory pursued in Romanian post-communist society. It argues that after an initial ‘elusive’ strategy based on a politics of amnesia gave way to a confrontationist stance promoting a politics of anamnesis, the communist past was both politically criminalised and symbolically demonised. The article concludes by arguing that the failure of the ‘mastering the past’ paradigm epitomised by the 2006 Tismăneanu Report needs to give way to a ‘normalising’ paradigm of remembering Romanian communism.

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  • Mihai Stelian Rusu, 2017. "Transitional Politics of Memory: Political Strategies of Managing the Past in Post-communist Romania," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 69(8), pages 1257-1279, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ceasxx:v:69:y:2017:i:8:p:1257-1279
    DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2017.1380783
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    1. Mihai Stelian Rusu & Alin Croitoru, 2021. "Memorial Ambivalences in Postcommunist Romania: Generational Attitudes towards the Symbolic Legacy of Communism," Societies, MDPI, vol. 11(3), pages 1-15, August.
    2. Rusu Mihai Stelian, 2019. "’Civilising’ the Transitional Generation: The Politics of Civic Education in Post-Communist Romania," Social Change Review, Sciendo, vol. 17(1), pages 116-141, December.

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