TOWARDS A „DEMOCRATIC HISTORY” OF THE COMMUNIST PAST. MEMORY AND REMEMBRANCE OF SUFFERING IN THE ROMANIAN GULAG

THE ROMANIAN REVOLUTION IN DECEMBER 1989 HAS BECOME THE TURNING MOMENT IN WHAT CONCERNS THE „DEPARTURE”, ALTHOUGH A PARTIAL ONE, FROM THE PAST IN AN IDEOLOGICAL, POLITICAL AND SOCIO -ECONOMIC OBLIVION, PROFOUNDLY MAINTAINED AT THE LEVEL OF THE POPULACE OF COMMUNIST ROMANIA, FOR HALF A CENTURY. IN THE SAME TIME, „THE 1989 MOMEN T” REPRESENTED A „TOIL OF MEMORY” EXPERIENCED AT THE LEVEL OF THE FORMER PRISONERS, WHICH HAVE GONE THROUGH THE DETENTION SPACES, BUT ALSO AN OCCASION THROUGH WHICH THE „FORCED MEMORY” OF THE SUBJECTS EVIDENCED ITSELF FOR ITS „SINGULARITY” AND „EXEMPLARITY ” OF THE „REMEMBRANCE” OF REPROVABLE AND PAINFUL FACTS AND EVENTS. STARTING FROM A METHODOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE TO A CLEAR CONCEPTUAL DEFINITION OF SOME TERMS LIKE „MEMORY” AND „REMEMBRANCE”, OUR SCIENTIFIC ENDEAVOR STOPS IN THE END, WITH THE TERMINOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION OF THREE TYPES OF REMEMBRANCE: CONSTRAINED, DETACHED AND UNSHACKLED, AS MORE ETHICAL THAN VINDICTIVE METHODS OF NARRATING AND ASSUMING THE PAST.

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