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The author examines the crucial differences between the breakdown of the totalitarian communist regimes in Central Europe and in Romania. For Central-Europeans, Westerners and the international community, the anti-commun...

This article focuses on the contributions of the Monographic School members to social sciences in Romania of the interwar period. The main theories and methodologies configured and applied by these scientists are present...

Review of: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith, Manualul dictatorului. De ce să te porţi rău e aproape întotdeauna o bună politică

This article analyzes a genuine, albeit insufficiently studied phenomenon: ”the sociological monography crisis” that appeared within the Gustian School between 1932-1934. The study of this crisis – which emerged ag...

The Hungarians living in Transylvania had to accept, after World War I, the status of ethnic minority. It was only towards the end of the Twenties that a new generation of intellectuals firmly formulated the need to conf...

This paper discusses the impact of the Western assistance for democracy in the Balkans (Eastern Europe), as civil society development programs. The analysis of the situation in the Balkans leads to the conclusion that th...

In this article I make a brief overview of women’s access to and struggle for education at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. The aim of this overview is to set the general backgrou...

This article describes how Romanian Communist Party obtained the control of mass-media between 1948 and 1989. Like any totalitarian regime, the communist state put into control printing press, radio and television throug...

This article analyzes Bucharest Sociological School from the perspective of state consolidation and interethnic relations. It outlines the constitution of a nationalist epistemic regime linking the Romanian people to ter...

The paper focuses on both fascism and communism in an attempt to analyze them as politics „pioneering” phenomena. My goal is to see the way fascism and communism as historical realities, ideal-types, and as tropes we...

In this study the author investigates the "dilemmas" of the Romanian Revolution. He is inquiring into the events taking place during the first half of the 90's, along with Romania's geopolitical evolution. Overall, every...