June 2009
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Verdery about Zhdanow
Submitted by Maurice on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 21:35From the heyday of Stalin's culture czar Zhdanov onward, the apparatus sees cultural production as a minor category of ideological activism and the function of art as indoctrination, providing clear answers to social questions.
National Ideology, p.88.- Login to post comments
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Consequences of Stalinization for intellectual life (about after the time after proclamation of the People's Republic in 1947)
Submitted by Maurice on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 21:04In the realm of intellectual life, the goal of the Communist Party was to annihilate any form of genuine creativity: literature, history, art, and philosophy were to be ideologically subordinated to the political sphere. The whole cultural tradition was reinterpreted in order to meet the new dogmas: the main names of Romanian literaure were obliterated [wiped out] from official publications, censorship was ruthlessly applied to eliminate anything that smacked of 'nationalism'. 'cosmopolitanism', 'objectivism' or other forms of 'bourgeois decadentism'
Stalinism For All Seasons, p. 109.- Login to post comments
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Fabrication of Romanian Nationalism
Submitted by Maurice on Tue, 06/23/2009 - 20:17What occurred instead was the simulation of a break with Moscow, the ethnicization (Romanization) of an elite that had little to do with national traditions, and the concoction of the corporatist-ethnocentric 'Romanian ideology' under Ceauşescu.
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