For more on everyday life during communism, see Adrian Neculau, Viaţa cotidiană în comunism (Iaşi: Editura Polirom, ). 6. Dennis Deletant, România sub. Adrian Neculau, Viaţa Cotidiană în Comunism (Iaşi, Romania: Polirom, ), The translation is my own. Cernat continues, “Families with many children. Dan Lungu, “Avatarurile cozii in socialismul de tip sovietic” in Viaţa Cotidiana in Comunism, ed. Adrian Neculau (Iasi: Polirom, ), Stela, interview.
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Hence the superiority of the social security net under Communism — at least prior to the s — is amplified. In hospitals children started to die from the cold or lack of medicines.
Home About Help Search. Allow this favorite library to be seen by others Keep this favorite library private. The stores were well supplied neculauu we could buy everything we needed: Only within this context is the subject of the Romanian Communist welfare state and its social policies briefly analyzed or described.
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The majority of those who gave this answer was represented by people with a low level of education, by elderly people, women, workers and peasants, while among intellectuals these tendencies were rarer. The young adriqn respectful and education was serious. Finding libraries that hold this item Please enter recipient e-mail address es.
Thus, welfare policy was more or less a mix between universal cogidiana benefits and special benefits, related either to employment in general or to the employment in one particular economic area.
Remember me on this computer. Romanian View all editions and formats Rating: Before the war one third of the population was illiterate and lived in the countryside. A Cushion That Suffocates.
Viaţa cotidiană în comunism
One could not identify an absolute security, neither objectively nor subjectively. Public transport between towns and rural areas functioned properly. Or, to put it another way: Whereas before the war social security plans dealt with individual problems sickness, old age, unemploymentafter the war they were designed to provide adequate protection to the entire population against the whole range of risks of the economic system. I feel sorry for my children too: However, republication cotkdiana only be granted with prior written consent of the above-named rights holders.
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Perceptions of Social Security in Communist Romania | Zeithistorische Forschungen
How did people react to this? Linked Data More info about Linked Data. For the use of photographs, audio and video material included in the articles note the stated terms of licence and the rights holders. The villages were provided with electricity.
Analele Sighet 10pp. That is, social security is not addressed from the universalistic post-war perspective, but from the limited, interwar perspective.
Knowing no other alternative and remembering social benefits of the s and s, it took many people years to realize that the s were not meculau a transitory stage. Some of my interviewees even considered that, had the shortage of available goods not occurred in the s, the Communist regime would not have collapsed in Ambulances refused to take calls from the elderly.
My parents were peasants and we had been very very poor, and now I had a Comunsm, a cooking stove, a phone, a car, I was a teacher and I lived in the city. No food, no clothes, no shoes, huge queues in front of shops for virtually everything.
The name field is required. Even though the power was often off, I got home safe. In my opinion, the Romanian anti-Communist resistance and opposition were significant, but less visible within the general system of ferocious oppression.
The old view on social security dealt with problems of minority groups, i. We even started to have problems with money. Ib, workers and peasants also suffered from Communist oppression, for instance during the s or s. The E-mail Address es field is required.
Shifts, Innovations and Restoration, in: Inpensions were at The s, the last period, brought economic stagnation and political decline. They were not aware of the existence of an alternative. Initially, social security programs were intended to offer protection to different disadvantaged social groups, but after the Second World War, the meaning of neculaau concept widened. Jones, New Perspectives fn. Since I am interested in establishing not only how people remember Communism, but mainly why people remember Communism the way they do, I asked them to explain or motivate their answers.
These interviews show that people revolted firstly because of the shortage of available goods and the rationing of food, hot and cold water, electricity and methane gas.