DISIDENTA ÎN REGIMUL COMUNIST ÎN ROMÂNIA. STUDIU DE CAZ – DOINA CORNEA

SHORTLY, THE DISSIDENTS, AT LEAST THE ONES WHO ARE KNOWN AS SUCH, WERE WHAT WE COULD CALL PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS. THE TERM OF DISSIDENT WAS NOT INVENTED BY THOSE WHO COULD HAVE BEEN PLACED INTO THIS CATEGORY. FURTHERMORE, THE TERM WAS ADOPTED WITHOUT ANY SHADE OF ENTHUSIASM BY THOSE CONCERNED OUT OF THE NEED OF SELF DEFINING THEIR OWN ACTIONS OF PROTEST IN A COMMON LANGUAGE WITH THE WESTERN. NEVERTHELESS, IT IS A TERM THAT, IN THE ABOVEMENTIONED SENSE – OF A PERSON THAT PUBLICLY EXPRESSES THEIR DISAPPROVAL OF THE COMMUNIST REGIME – WAS FAMOUS UNTIL 1989, BEING ASSUMED FROM JOURNALISM INTO ACADEMIC AND POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT. IN ROMANIA, THIS DEFINITION IS FAR FROM BEING CONSISTENTLY USED. DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE ROMANIANS THAT FIT TO THE STRICTLY ACKNOWLEDGED TERM – THE DISSIDENT ARE THOSE WHO OVERTLY CRITICISED COMMUNISM, ASSUMING ALL THE RISKS THAT FOLLOWED FROM THIS – WERE IN SMALL NUMBER, THE DEFINITION WAS USED AFTER 1989 AND WITH REFERENCE TO PERSONS THAT NEVER EXPRESSED PUBLICLY THEIR CRITICAL OPINIONS, BUT WHO, OPPOSITE TO OTHERS, DID NOT PRAISE THE REGIME. IN WHAT FOLLOWS, THE DISSIDENCE IN COMMUNIST ROMANIA WILL BE REVIEWED IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED SENSE AND UNANIMOUSLY ACCEPTED BY THOSE WHO WATCHED THE EVOLUTION OF THE SOVIETIC BLOCK IN THE 1970‟S AND 1980‟S.

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