The Importance of the Romanian Library of Freiburg for the Romanian Exile in the Context of the Beginning of the Communism and the Sovietisation of the Romanian Society

Abstract

One can notice a growing interest regarding the discovery and the highlighting of the forms of cultural resistance in the 1950-1989 period, especially the highlighting of the importance and significations of the post-war Romanian exile, in the communist period, based on the conservation and development of the interior existence together with keeping the modernist reaction regarding the autonomy of the aesthetics to its political insubordination. The Romanian Library of Freiburg constitutes an essential starting point in highlighting the types of cultural resistance of the exile. The Romanian cultural exile begun at the start of the 50s in Romania, when the persecutions of the intellectual elite orchestrated by the political regime also started. This article aims to analyse the historical and political context of the appearance of the types of cultural resistance that determined the appearance of cultural associations in the diaspora as a response to the censorship, with a review of the types of associations and cultural institutions that appeared as a form of protest and preservation of Romanian cultural values. By correlating studies from interdisciplinary fields, we can reunify the image of Romanian exile and its main directions, reconsidering the role of cultural institutions in the context of the transformations of the communist period.