CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Spirchez, Cornel-Adrian |
|---|---|
| Title | Social-Democrat and Communist Perspectives on Development in Pre-communist Romania The Serban Voinea and Lucretiu Patrascanu Case |
| Summary | ABSTRACT This thesis evaluates the socialist and communist perspectives on social-change and development in pre-communist Romania, focusing specifically on the theorethical writings of Serban Voinea and Lucretiu Patrascanu. I argue that far from being divergent, as it is usually asserted, the two perspectives on development and social-change are comparable up to a point when they become almost identical. Thus, the theorethical differences between the two visions are rather rhetorical. The communist perspective rejects the socialist one because, the way it is formulated leads, in terms of political strategy, to the collaboration with the bourgeoisie. The theorethical writings of the two Marxist historians are analyzed and evaluated within a certain key. Both Voinea and Pătrăşcanu were producing or advocating not only histories but ideological histories regarding the social-change and development of modern Romania. In their writings, they were keen to provide a certain interpretation of the Romanian economic, social, political and cultural realities. This certain interpretation was expected to justify the political programme of the parties they represented. This strict correlation between theory and practice is somehow justified and legitimized as they were both ardent followers of Karl Marx, a thinker and a socialist revolutionary. Historical materialism was the driving force of their interpretative framework. The differences between the two perspectives presented in this paper are not to be grasped if one reads these authors strictly from the theoretical standpoint of their writings. In sum, their theoretical paradigms are unintelligible if not related to the scope of the political action they had concomitantly envisioned. |
| Supervisor | Iordachi Constantin, Trencsenyi Balazs |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/spirchez_cornel-adrian.pdf |
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