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    STUDIA HISTORIA - Issue no. 2 / 2011  
         
  Article:   “SEARCHING FOR IDENTITY”: THE POLITICAL INSTRUMENTALISATION OF CULTURAL TRADITIONS IN ROMANIA, (1948-1965).

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  Abstract:  Hard to avoid in a space perceived as specific for the collective mentality, traditional culture represented the central stake for the ideological discourse promoted by the communist regime beginning with 1948, being recovered and inserted into a large process of political instrumentalisation. On this respect, our study analyses the way in which relationships between political interests of the regime and the sensitive universe of the folk art were established. We also illustrate the fact that appealing to cultural tradition had as a goal providing identity elements that could give a local specific mark, to counterbalance artificial imported signs inappropriate for Romanian intellectual experience. By the help of Folklore Institute, Institute of History of Art, Institute of Literary History and Folklore and also imposing Marx and Lenin method of analysing cultural phenomena, the regime managed to gain the supremacy of interpreting folklore researching.

Keywords: communism and traditional culture, folklore, national identity, instrumentalization of tradition, Marx-Lenin method of analyzing cultural tradition, popular primordialism 		 
         
     
         
         
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