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On History's Forgeries

On History's Forgeries 171 , ON HISTORY'S FORGERIES Lucian Boia: Dou � secole de mltologle natlonal � [Two Centuries of National Mythology] Bucharest: Humanitas, 1999, 136 pages Romanian historiography has experienced the revitalizatipn of a number of research problems and methods that the preceding decades of Communism seemed to have buried forever. The origin of the Romanian people, the Romanians' continuity in the Carpathian-Danubian-Pontic space, the unitary character in the Romanian state-forming process, and the epic Romanian resis- tance before Ottoman expansion in Europe: topics which have 'always' been important to Romanian historians have once again, during the 1990s, become problems of the utmost importance. The first systematic approach to these issues related to the Romanian national self perception is due to the historiog- raphy of the nineteenth century. From there they eventually passed, without much self-criticism, into the historiography of the first decades of the twentieth century. They seemed to have been forgotten (or rather suppressed) during the tough, anti-nationalist Stalinist period of the 1950s, only to be rediscovered in the 1970s and 1980s, attaining mythological status in order to serve the power of Nicolae Ceau?escu's communist dictatorship. _ Alongside the persistence of traditional discourse, contemporary historiog- raphy has developed http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png East Central Europe Brill

On History's Forgeries

Corlan-Ioan, Simona
East Central Europe , Volume 27 (2): 171 – Jan 1, 2000
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© 2000 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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171 , ON HISTORY'S FORGERIES Lucian Boia: Dou � secole de mltologle natlonal � [Two Centuries of National Mythology] Bucharest: Humanitas, 1999, 136 pages Romanian historiography has experienced the revitalizatipn of a number of research problems and methods that the preceding decades of Communism seemed to have buried forever. The origin of the Romanian people, the Romanians' continuity in the Carpathian-Danubian-Pontic space, the unitary character in the Romanian state-forming process, and the epic Romanian resis- tance before Ottoman expansion in Europe: topics which have 'always' been important to Romanian historians have once again, during the 1990s, become problems of the utmost importance. The first systematic approach to these issues related to the Romanian national self perception is due to the historiog- raphy of the nineteenth century. From there they eventually passed, without much self-criticism, into the historiography of the first decades of the twentieth century. They seemed to have been forgotten (or rather suppressed) during the tough, anti-nationalist Stalinist period of the 1950s, only to be rediscovered in the 1970s and 1980s, attaining mythological status in order to serve the power of Nicolae Ceau?escu's communist dictatorship. _ Alongside the persistence of traditional discourse, contemporary historiog- raphy has developed

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