Calling Planet Marx: Nicolae Ceausescu's cultural revolution

Gavin Philip Bowd

doi:10.3898/175864316815923506

Calling Planet Marx: Nicolae Ceausescu's cultural revolution

Gavin Philip Bowd

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	136-147
Number of pages	12
Journal	Twentieth Century Communism: A Journal of International History
Volume	9
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3898/175864316815923506
Publication status	Published - Aug 2016

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Ceausescu
Communist party
Romania

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