The latest issue (14.1) of the Cultural History journal was published in April. The theme of the issue is ‘Democratization, National Identity and Collective Memory in Modern Romania’.

The contents:

‘Introduction: Democratization, National Identity and Collective Memory in Modern Romania’, by Victor Rizescu

‘Politics of Eternity, Messianism and Liberal Democracy: Shapes and Waves of Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Romanian Political Thought. Between the ‘West and the Rest’?’, by Raluca Alexandrescu (Free Access)

‘The Beginnings of Romanian National Activism among the Balkan Vlachs during the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Nicolae Bălcescu, Ion Ghica and Ion Ionescu de la Brad’, by Vladimir Crețulescu

‘From Right-Wing Liberalism to the Modernist Right: A Romanian Strand of the Modernizing Drive Intertwining with the Culture of Traditionalism’, by Victor Rizescu

‘Appropriating Orthodoxy: Rhetorical Ambiguity and Religious Martyrdom for the Fascist Masses in Interwar Romania (1920–37)’, by Ionuț Biliuță

‘Post-Socialist ‘Cancel Culture’? The Contested Politics of Memory in Post-Socialist Romania’, by Mihai S. Rusu (Open Access)