Cahiers Echinox, 19, 2010: "Communisme, négociation des confins"

Caietele Echinox

Volume 19 / 2010

Communisme - Négotiation des confins

Coordinateurs: Andrada Fătu-Tutoveanu & Sanda Cordoş

ISSN 1582-960X (Roumanie)

2-905725-06-0 (France)

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The demise of Communism remains an important research topic for Human and Social Sciences. Twenty years on, with the benefit of hindsight, research on the phe­no­menon has been enriched, its instruments refined to respond to the complexity of the concepts involved as well as to the critical and theoretical approaches in circulation. These are now applied to a field of investigation enriched by the publication of new documents and testimonies, as well as by the opening of document archives inaccessible until recently. Building on the topic of boundary negotiation within communism, this issue of Echinox Journal reunites several generations of researchers from various European countries, ap­plying different perspectives on a phenomenon characterised by the complexity of a whole “continent”. It is a continent possessing a typical geography and therefore making neces­sary a good mapping at all levels: historical, political, social, psychological, cultural and literary. We do not claim having achieved such a map, but do believe that this issue of E­chinox Journal can provide a series of suggestions and keys perhaps landmarks, useful for a reader interested in (re)visiting the complex topic of Communism.

In designing this volume, we started from the idea of “boundary”, imposition or li­mit, as one of the main realities of a totalitarian regime, at work at all social and cultural le­vels of the Eastern European societies. The symbolical boundary (a sort of imaginary “wire fencing”) was present in all walks of life, from the closed geographical borders to the ideological restrictions enforced upon culture and literature (as a new, ideologically im­posed “canon”). Professional and even private life was subject to various boundaries (from the freedom of speech to the controlled distribution of workplaces, houses, food, everyday items and so on). The system was the only one to decide which the accepted limits were, be they in everyday life, legislation, culture, press, education or art. This issue of Echinox Journal investigates therefore the manner in which the idea of boundary, totalitarian imposition or limitation is perceived by post-communist research today, especially by a new generation, as the volume features contributions signed mainly by researchers spe­cialised after 1989 and who thus re­cover and try to make sense of – in many papers through direct access to recently open official archives –an important part of their countries' history (but also history of literature or social history), benefiting from the current framework of research, the new means and perspectives. (Andrada Fătu-Tutoveanu)

Sommaire

Sanda Cordoş & Andrada Fătu- Tutoveanu, Foreword: Negotiating Communist Boundaries

Life and Culture under Siege/

La vie et la culture en état de siège

• Manuela Marin, The Limits of the Romanian Communist Propaganda: The Case of People's Letters
• Mara Mărginean, Importing words to build a city: socialist modernization of Hunedoara between architects' designs and politicians' projects, 1950-1951
• Alina Bîrsan, « Résistance » et « résilience » du sujet ordinaire dans le contexte totalitaire communiste roumain. Déclinaisons du politique à l'épreuve de la psychologie clinique
• Cătălina Mihalache, Between Punishment and Reward: Pupils` Families in the Service of the Communist Education
• Alexandru Câmpeanu, Soviet Style Modernization of the Romanian Villages (1948 – 1962)
• Corneliu Pintilescu, La légalité socialiste et les dilemmes de la répression politique. Du modèle soviétique aux démocraties populaires
• François Ruegg, La culture en état de siège en Europe. Avec la fin du communisme, l'avènement annoncé d'une pensée européenne unique et rentable
• Cristina Spinei, Dimensionen der politischen Kultur Rumäniens: Bürgerbewusstsein oder Fluchtpunkt?
• Alexandru Matei, Est-ce qu'on peut parler d'une esthétique du communisme?

Escaping Communist Boundaries/

Échapper aux confins communistes

• Andi Mihalache, Escaping from the Communist Public Life: Objects, Décors, Recollections
• Corina Boldeanu, Transgresser la censure communiste à travers l'ironie poétique
• Rodica Ilie, Matei Călinescu's The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter or the Silent Path of Liberty
• Alain Vuillemin, La dénonciation du communisme en Union Soviétique, entre les deux guerres mondiales, en France,
• par des intellectuels est- et centre-européens d'expression française

Cultural Policies and Literature: Negotiating Boundaries/

Politiques Culturelles et Littérature: Négociation des restrictions

• Caius Dobrescu, Legends of the Inner Frontier. Consciousness in the Romanian Literature of the post-Stalin Era: 1960-1989
• Sanda Cordoş, La littérature roumaine d'après-guerre. Limites, privilèges, fonctions
• Réka M. Cristian , Peripheral Thrones: Negotiating Borders in Contemporary Croatian Women's Prose
• Anna Spólna, Boundaries of Creative Freedom in Social Realist Mourning Poetry: Threnodies on Stalin's Death Published in Polish Press
• Andrada Fătu-Tutoveanu, Negotiating the Communist Ideological “Canon” – A Case Study: Petru Dumitriu (1948-1953)
• David Bandelj, The Open or Close Character of the Slovenian Western Border, Based on Three Writers: Pahor – Rebula – Kocbek
• Ileana Alexandra Orlich, Communist Totalitarianism in Solzhenitsyn's Fiction
• Mihaela Rogozan, Spuren der Grenze in Herta Müllers Diskurs des Alleinseins
• Delia Cotârlea, Kulturpoltik und Literatur zwischen 1965-1975 an Hand der deutschsprachigen Zeitschrift aus Rumänien Volk und Kultur
• Andrei Bodiu, Communist Censorhip and Romanian Poetry of the 1980s
• Carmen Elisabeth Puchianu, Vom Schreiben in der Mausefalle. Zur eigenen Lyrik und Prosa der späten 80er Jahre im Kontext der Diktatur. Eine (selbst)kritische Retrospektive
• Olga Grădinaru, The Child Character and the Positive Hero in the Soviet Prose of the Second World War
• Mihaela Lovin, The Cherry Orchard in Soviet Rereading
• Elena Butuşină, The Little Grey Wolf Will Come to Heal the Wounds of the Red Era

Final Escape: Eastern Europe after 1989/

L'échappée finale: L'Europe d'Est après 1989

• Ruxandra Cesereanu, The Romanian Anticommunist Revolution and the “Terrorists” of December 1989
• Patricia Goletz, The transformation process and current problems of the Nation's Memory Institute of Slovakia (Bratislava)
• Ion Manolescu, Erasing the Identity of the Past. Effects of the “Systematization” Process in Nicolae Ceausescu's Communist Romania
• Vlad Navitski, To End History: What the Leftists' Experience Can Tell Us about the Contemporary World
• Alin Rus, Romanian Or Moldovan Language? Language as an Artificial Boundary among the Inhabitants of a New State

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