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Coming to Terms with the Communist Past in Romania: An Analysis of the Political and Media Discourse Concerning the Tismăneanu Report

"This paper looks at the public debates about the communist past, as triggered by the final report on the communist dictatorship in Romania (the Tismăneanu report) and its presidential endorsement in December 2006. The paper employs narrative and discourse analysis to examine the political reactions to the official condemnation of communism, as well as its reflection in several Romanian newspapers. The Tismăneanu report was meant to be a ‘redressive ritual’ that would provide closure to a traumatic past by retrospectively denouncing the meaning of communism, but instead it generated more public debates and political turmoil. This indicates that the contorted path taken by Romania to confront its communist past is not a finished process yet, but rather represents a dynamic field in which social actors are fighting over which events and actors in the past should be collectively remembered, and especially how they have to be represented in the collective memory of post-communist Romania." (author's abstract)

Coming to Terms with the Communist Past in Romania: An Analysis of the Political and Media Discourse Concerning the Tismăneanu Report

Urheber*in: Hogea, Alina

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ISSN
1736-8758
Extent
Seite(n): 16-30
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation
Studies of Transition States and Societies, 2(2)

Subject
Politikwissenschaft
Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen
Medieninhalte, Aussagenforschung
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Rumänien
postkommunistische Gesellschaft
Vergangenheitsbewältigung
Diktatur
politische Geschichte
Kommunismus
kollektives Gedächtnis
Massenmedien
Diskurs

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Hogea, Alina
Event
Veröffentlichung
(when)
2010

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-369688
Rights
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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  • Zeitschriftenartikel

Associated

  • Hogea, Alina

Time of origin

  • 2010

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