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    STUDIA HISTORIA - Issue no. 2 / 2015  
         
  Article:   BOOK REVIEWS: DAN LUNGU, AMELIA GHEORGHIŢĂ, EDS., BOOKS, MUSIC AND OTHER FORMS OF ENTERTAINMENT FROM COMMUNISM, POLIROM, IAŞI, 2014.

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  Abstract:  The volume edited by the aforementioned authors captivates not only by crafting a new method for collecting the sources, but also by the fact that the sources are allowed to tell their own stories, without suffering methodological or epistemological alterations. Even the title suggests a certain degree of detachment, easiness and a lack of constraint, thus being somehow opposed to the cold, hermetic headlines of "classic", scholastic history, allowing us to immerse into a personal universe, filled with books, music, film and theatre. Therefore, the study emerges as a collection of ego-histoires, of memoir and journal excerpts, a collection in which the two authors chose not to intervene, in order to allow memory to reconstitute itself. The work addresses those who prefer a more "vivid" approach on history, a history that is more personal, animate, over an academic version on the past, which is, in most cases, heavy, onerous, historicized. The result is a study very similar to those of oral history, a story which is able to transport us back in time and allow us to sketch the ways of cultural escapism during the communist regime.  
         
     
         
         
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