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- Title
Activitatea căminului cultural din România comunistă: între propaganda politică şi munca cultural-educativă (1948-1965).
- Authors
POPA, Răzvan
- Abstract
The institution of "village halls" or "cultural house" appeared in interwar period in Romania as a result of elite's desire to increase the level of culture and education in rural areas of the country. The model was copied from Western an d Central Europe. After 1948, The Communist Party reach the power and used the "village halls" also for artistic, cultural and educational reasons, but in the same time the regime transformed the role of this institution which became an important propagandistic instrument, a way to sending the official propaganda message in Romania's villages, the rural part of the country reached after the World War Two, 80% of total population. This article wants to present the main activities developed by "village halls" in Romania in the first period of the communist era (1948 -1965). The sources used for this study was in principal, archival sources, interviews, press from the period, general studies and books about propaganda and communist press dedicated to cultural activities.
- Subjects
ROMANIA; VILLAGES; CULTURAL activities; RURAL geography; COMMUNIST parties; POLITICS &; culture; COMMUNIST propaganda; PUBLIC buildings
- Publication
Studia Universitatis Cibiniensis. Series Historica, 2019, Vol 16, p201
- ISSN
1584-3165
- Publication type
Article