Reinterpreting Historical Documents According to the Needs of the Political Regime in Communist Romania: The Case of the War of Independence (1877-1878) on Its Centenary.
The grand celebration of a century since Romania gained its independence following the 1877-1878 War of Independence was one of the important objectives of the communist regime in Romania and of a part of Romanian historiography engaged in its festive and protochronistic interpretation. One of the goals was to strongly affirm the desire for total independence of Romanians present throughout history, the culmination being, of course, the achievement of full independence for his country under Nicolae Ceauşescu. Constructing an appropriate image, intended to consolidate the status of the most important leader in Romanian history, in the context of an increasingly present personality cult, was one of the three strategies of the regime's official historiography This paper aims to trace the censorship's efforts to reconstruct the 1877-1878 moment in keeping with the ideological commands of the communist regime in Bucharest, especially of Nicolae Ceauşescu, presenting it only as a stage in a
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