Postcomunismul românesc. O posibilă tipologie Romanian Postcommunism. A Possible Typology Section Articles

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Emanuel Copilaș

Abstract

After three decades since the 1989 revolution, is postcommunism still a relevant concept for understanding Romania's profound transformations after the fall of Ceauşescu's national-communist regime? For a number of reasons detailed in the introductive section, I aim to offer a positive answer to this question: postcommunism is still a valid theoretical tool in apprehending this new stage of Romania's development, although its relevance is not so powerful as it was back in the 1990s. This study tries to differentiate several major directions of analysis regarding Romanian postcommunism. The typology it poposes is by far not a complete one, not even a very complex one; it just tries to identify, grosso modo, what I consider to be the main dimensions of this complex social phenomenon. Of course, the debate can go on, and it is highly recommendable to go on, both by expanding and/or contesting the present typology. After I analyze the ideological, political, economical, social and cultural components of Romanian postcommunism, the idea I try to bring forward is that of the irreducible particularity of this ideology, the more prolific as its discursive efforts to present itself as the 'end of history', common sense, reality or non-ideological universalism - were more intense.

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Author Biography

Emanuel Copilaș, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara

Adress: 4 Vasile Pârvan Blvd., Timișoara, Romania.

Email: emanuel.copilas@e-uvt.ro

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How to Cite
Copilaș, E. (2017). Postcomunismul românesc. O posibilă tipologie: Romanian Postcommunism. A Possible Typology. Sociologie Românească, 15(1-2), 85-111. Retrieved from http://revistasociologieromaneasca.ro/sr/article/view/2017_1_2_copilas