Abstract
Este estudio se centra en dos países "hermanos", Rumania y Polonia, y aborda la categoría de "normalidad" en relación con la vida cotidiana bajo el gobierno de la comuna y, por lo tanto, bajo un régimen político cuyas reglas a veces se describen como esencialmente "anormales". Se ha argumentado que la vida cotidiana revela mejor la naturaleza del totalitarismo, porque el totalitarismo atacó y deformó todas las esferas de la vida, imponiendo la dependencia y el miedo a las reglas sin alma para consolidar el poder. La "normalidad" se puede equiparar con la previsibilidad y la sensación de seguridad en la vida cotidiana, y su contrario sería una situación de incertidumbre y peligro: a nivel individual - enfermedad o desempleo, a nivel colectivo - guerra, una gran crisis económica, una epidemia. Pero la "normalidad" es quizás ante todo una categoría coloquial de juicio y crítica; a menudo se convierte en una imagen postulada o idealizada de la vida adecuada. La "normalidad" también implica la existencia de una determinada norma y en este nivel se convierte en un elemento de distinción social; lo que es "anormal" para determinados grupos, puede ser un cuadro de vida dócil para otros. Este estudio se concentra en conceptos como "norma", "normalidad" y "normalización" y los diversos significados y entendimientos relacionados con su uso bajo el gobierno comunista, abordando los casos de Polonia y Rumania...
Highlights
This study focuses on two “fraternal” countries, Romania and Poland, and addresses the category of “normality” in relation to everyday life under communist rule and under a political regime whose rules are sometimes described as essentially “abnormal”
This study concentrates on concepts such as” norm,” “normality” and “normalization” and the various meanings and understandings related to their use under communist rule by addressing the cases of Poland and Romania
This view can be partially agreed, pointing out that the figure of “normality” in the Polish mentality was clearly associated with the image of the past. It was the “abnormal” political system that tried to detach from it the nations subordinated to the USSR. Their social and political evolution would be, if not for the foreign yoke, “normal.” It often revealed here that “communism” is by its very nature a denial of normality, which manifests itself at various levels, ranging from mysterious political life to the peculiar phenomena of everyday life
Summary
Daniela Koleva considers the problem of “normality” and “norm” in relation to communist countries, placing it in a broad historical context. Rather sociological research level (3), “everyday life” is the sum of activities and events typical of given groups or individuals during the day, so the basic reference here is time This kind of image of everyday life was revealed in studies of the so-called social time. Elementary supply shortages in the 1950s prompted the urban population to develop adaptation strategies, i.e. securing everyday needs by maintaining strong relations with the village, functioning on the black market, in the “gray zone”, which – despite the general modernization assumptions – strengthened a number of pre-modern phenomena, including the capital importance of personal relations It was, in particular in the case of Poland, a kind of continuation of social particularities well known from the times of war and occupation[15]. Their social and political evolution would be, if not for the foreign yoke, “normal.” It often revealed here that “communism” is by its very nature a denial of normality, which manifests itself at various levels, ranging from mysterious political life to the peculiar phenomena of everyday life
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a callDisclaimer: All third-party content on this website/platform is and will remain the property of their respective owners and is provided on "as is" basis without any warranties, express or implied. Use of third-party content does not indicate any affiliation, sponsorship with or endorsement by them. Any references to third-party content is to identify the corresponding services and shall be considered fair use under The CopyrightLaw.
