George Neagoe, G. Călinescu, Uniunea Patrioților și începuturile stalinizării în România
G. Călinescu, the Union of Patriots and the Beginning of Stalinization in Romania
The following article discusses about the relation between the literary critic G. Călinescu, the crypto-communist organization “The Union of Patriots” and the first steps to Romania’s Stalinization in the autumn of 1944. We bring some new details regarding the history of this political structure, which served so called anti-Fascist purposes during the Second World War (1942-1944). Besides, our intention is to spot the way the Communist Party used it as a middle of propaganda among the intellectuals. Furthermore, the aim of the paper is to prove that G. Călinescu, as a member of “The Union of Patriots”, served the ideology of the Communist Party and its short term political goals in a series of articles he published in the newspaper “Tribuna poporului” (“People’s Tribune”) in 1944. He sustained very promptly the “democratic” (Stalinist) signals and proposals that left extremism, under a populist and message, spread into Romanian public space at that time.
Keywords: G. Călinescu, The Union of Patriots, Stalinization, propaganda, populism, soviet democracy, “Tribuna poporului” (“People’s Tribune”).
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