Calling Planet Marx: Nicolae Ceausescu's cultural revolution
Abstract
The late sixties saw a considerable liberalisation of cultural and political life in Communist Romania. However, after a trip to the Far East, Nicolae Ceausescu launched a 'cultural revolution' which aimed to shore up the regime and protect it from foreign influences. If this mass cultural mobilisation did receive support in some areas, it also hollowed out the ideological core of the Communist Party, exacerbated the cult of the personality and increasingly isolated the country, thus preparing the ground the revolution of December 1989.
Citation
Bowd , G P 2016 , ' Calling Planet Marx: Nicolae Ceausescu's cultural revolution ' , Twentieth Century Communism: A Journal of International History , vol. 9 , no. 9 , pp. 136-147 . https://doi.org/10.3898/175864316815923506
Publication
Twentieth Century Communism: A Journal of International History
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1758-6437Type
Journal article
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Copyright 2016. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.3898/175864316815923506
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