On December 1st 1918, at the end of WW1, following the vote in Alba Iulia, Transylvania, a territory in Austro-Hungary, inhabited mostly by Romanians but having a large Hungarian community, became part of the Kingdom of Romania.
Creativity, in totalitarian regimes, is almost annihilated, while art and artists become part of the propaganda.
One of Ceaușescu's opponents was the economist Alexandru Bârlădeanu
Scientific research in a totalitarian regime or a dictatorship is strictly controlled by the state apparatus
Constantin Ion Parhon was a name often uttered in the 20th century
The presence of Jewish communities in the Romanian space has been known ever since the Middle Ages
Romania's first people's court was set up in 1945 to prosecute war crimes but would also be used as a political instrument.
The printed media suffered greatly at the hands of communist censorship
Radio Romanias Oral History Centre contains many recollections about the locals experiences with the Soviet Army towards the end of WWII.
120 km away from Bucharest we have the city of Calarasi, the seat of the eponymous county
The massacres of WWll ended in 1945 and in the summer of 1946 a peace conference kicked off in the capital of France, which lasted until October
Teacher Ion Mihalache, a major Romanian politician before 1945, represented the peasant middle class. He was a man of integrity, defender of...
Mugur Călinescu's name will forever remain in the history of heroism as a man's struggle with a cruel, much stronger enemy but which did...
The Union of Romanian Principalities on January the 24th
