CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Mandru, Anca Maria |
|---|---|
| Title | Cultural Nationalism alongside Official State-Building: The Romanian Cultural League in the Interwar Period |
| Summary | This thesis uses the case study of the Romanian Cultural League in the interwar period to question generally held assumptions about the development and endurance of cultural nationalism and its characteristics. The thesis finds that in the Romanian case cultural nationalism has survived the fulfillment of its goals by the creation of Greater Romania in 1918 and readjusted its program to the context of the interwar period. A survey of the League’s program and activity shows that the cultural nationalism advocated by the organization coexisted and complemented the official projects aimed at creating a cohesive national culture. The League engaged in cultural practices aimed at a moral regeneration of the community and a cultural unification of the various traditions characteristic to the provinces making up interwar Romania. The League’s identification with its leader, the historian and politician Nicolae Iorga, ensured its visibility but at the same time consigned it to a traditionalist niche of the public discourse. |
| Supervisor | Iordachi, Constantin |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/mandru_anca.pdf |
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