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Revista Istorică nr. 4-6 2023 – Note și recenzii
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New Reference Books on Romanian Historiography. A Review Essay – Paul Michelson
Two things have been greatly lacking since 1989 in regard to the history of history in Romania. The first is a detailed, factual synthesis of their historiographical past by the Romanians themselves. There have been a number of significant works by the leading historiographers of Romania (such as Lucian Boia,…
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O relație culturală complicată. Reluarea activității British Council în România – Mioara Anton
The paper explores the dynamic of cultural relations between Romania and the United Kingdom during the years of détente. It contributes to the exploration of soft power policies across the Iron Curtain by focusing on the activities of the British Council in Bucharest. In the spirit of détente, its representatives…
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Un model de cooperare pentru Europa Unită avant la lettre. Premisele și evoluția Micii Înțelegeri – Mircea Iliescu
The end of the First World War determined structural changes on the map of Europe, resulting from the disintegration of the Great Empires and the emergence of new state actors. A paradigm shift arrived, revolving around the liberal model, the Wilsonian vision summarized in the “14 points”, the principles, values…
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Numirea lui G. Oprescu la Secretariatul Ligii Națiunilor: un episod biografic – Ioana Apostol
As an important Romanian art historian and critic, G. Oprescu (1881–1969) is primarily recognized for his scholarly contributions and his role as founder and director of the Art History Institute in Bucharest. Despite a career that extended over more than six decades, the earlier and middle phases of his professional…
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Bacalaureat în vreme de război. Elevii români refugiați la Odessa și Herson (1917) – Radu Tudorancea
This paper is focusing on a rather omitted, if not unknown issue of Romania’s participation into the First World War, namely the issue of the Romanian War refugees in the Tsarist Empire, more precisely – the odyssey of the Romanian High-school students in the refuge towns of Odessa and Herson,…
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Sous les armes au Moyen Âge tardif en Europe Centrale et Orientale. Le Cas De La Campagne Ottomane de 1476 – Andrei Mirea
The article examines the context of the Moldavian-Ottoman war of 1476 from the perspective of the fighters’ desertion from the Christian armies involved in this military conflict (there are considered the armies of Moldavia, Hungary, and Poland). There is also highlighted the military, social and climatic context of Southeast Europe…
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Reformele agrară și electorală în dezbaterea Parlamentului (mai-iunie 1917) – Gabriela Dristaru
The lack of ample studies on the impact of the Russian Revolution on Romania and Romanian society led to the general belief that its impact was rather modest. Studying the debates in the Romanian parliament and the political opposition to the agrarian and electoral reforms, using new available records from…
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Corupția și anticorupția în Principatele Române: reguli de guvernare (sec. XVII-XIX)- Ovidiu Olar
The present study reflects on the issue of corruption and anticorruption in Early Modern Moldavia and Wallachia. It disagrees with the opinion that corruption was a word without any meaning in the ancient Romanian social, political and juridical vocabulary. Consequently, it argues that corruption mattered; the main sources clearly attest…
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Fanarioții și supușii în porunci și nizamuri (1700-1830) – Constanța Vintilă
Governing by commandments is the purpose of our study, focusing on those commands that have at the center of the analysis the subjects and their relationship with power. Therefore, our research follows several stages. In the first part, we will try to observe how a command is born and what…
