The Romanian press of late has started circulating a word with frightening associations: torturer.
A lot has been written about political collaborationism in relation to the communist regime and about the political collaborationism of intellectuals in particular
Before 1919, Jews in Romania had no civil rights.
One of the technical fields in Romania that were marked by a fast development after WWI was aviation
The totalitarian regimes, such as fascism and communism, benefitted from the support of certain intellectuals. They had various reasons to do that,...
Peace has always been a favourite theme in communist propaganda.
The story behind Liviu Babes's extreme gesture
The plague afflicted Europe for many centuries, leaving dozens of millions dead
The science of outer space is marred by a conflict between science and religion
The Romanian-Hungarian dispute of the 20th Century had, among other components, one related to the academic community, more precisely to the University of Cluj
Between 1945 and 1989 the Romanian mass media was controlled by the Communist power. The process of gaining power...
Religion and churchgoing were generally frowned upon back in Communist Romania. Religious practices were being discouraged and back in the early days of communism, some clergymen served many years in prisons for their faith
The Union of the Romanian Principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia, on January 24, 1859, was made by domestic pressure, but also under propitious international circumstances
On December 1, 1918, Romanians in Transylvania proclaimed the union with the Kingdom of Romania. The fluid and muddled situation in the autumn of 1918, at the end of WWI, led to confusion among individuals and communities
The early 19th century was a time when the Romanian space modernized. It involved a new way of seeing the world, with an increasing awareness of fundamental rights and freedoms that no authority could violate
