Quest for a Suitable Past

Claudia-Florentina Dobre is currently the editor-in-chief of the cultural journal Memoria and an associate researcher at Regional Center of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (CeReFREA), University of Bucharest. She has published extensively on the memory of Romanian communism and political persecution; museums, monuments, and memorials; and on everyday life under communism. Cristian Emilian Ghita has a PhD in classics and ancient history from the University of Exeter. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bucharest. His interests include Hellenistic studies, Asia Minor, and ancient warfare. All of these are fortuitously combined in his current research project, "Military Traditions and Innovations in Hellenistic Asia Minor."

Foreword

Lucian Boia


Introduction

Claudia-Florentina Dobre


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Gábor Egry


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Mythologizing the Biographies of Romanian Underground Communists: The Case Study of Miron Constantinescu

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Women in the Communist Party: Debunking a (Post-)Communist Mythology

Luciana-Marioara Jinga


Avatars of the Social Imaginary: Myths about Romanian Communism after 1989

Claudia-Florentina Dobre


Post-Communist Politics of Memory and the New Regime of Historiography: Recent Controversies on the Memory of the “Forty-Five Years of the Communist Yoke” and the “Myth of Batak”

Liliana Deyanova


The Phenomenon of “Parahistory” in Post-Communist Bulgaria: Old Theories and New Myths on Proto-Bulgarians

Alexander Nikolov


Note on contributors

Index of names