Hungarian Studies
Volume/Issue:
Volume 25: Issue 2
Dealing with communist past: The case of Romania
Author:
Vladimir Tismaneanu University of Maryland Baltimore MD USA

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Pages:
175–183
Online Publication Date:
09 Jan 2012
Publication Date:
01 Dec 2011
Article Category:
Journal Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/hstud.25.2011.2.1
Keywords:
communism; memory; dealing with the past; legitimacy; Leninist legacy, perpetrator; democracy
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This article analyzes the significance of the activity of the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania (PCACDR) and the impact of its report on the basis of which the communist regime was condemned as criminal and illegitimate. The author also situates the Romanian case within the larger discussions on the role of overcoming a traumatic past in post-authoritarian democracies. PCADCR rejected outright the practices of institutionalized forgetfulness and generated a national debate about long-denied and occulted moments of the past. The Commission’s Final Report answered a fundamental necessity, characteristic of the post-authoritarian world, that of moral clarity. It set the ground for the revolutionizing of the normative foundations of the communal history, imposing the necessary moral criteria of a democracy that wishes to militantly defend its values.

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Hungarian Studies
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Foundation		 1985
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