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Romania: Approaches and Limits of Economic History

In: Behind the Iron Curtain

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  • Bogdan Murgescu

    (University of Bucharest)

  • Matei Gheboianu

    (University of Bucharest)

  • Ionuț-Mircea Marcu

    (University of Bucharest)

Abstract

In spite of Marxist ideology, economic history remained understudied in communist Romania. Most Romanian historians paid lip-service to the official dogmas and produced only conventional studies that did not add to the knowledge of economic history. Significant exceptions were some scholars educated in the interwar period, who managed to take advantage of the openings in reviving the academic relations with the West in the late 1950s and in the 1960s. The Romanian case studies focuses on historian Andrei Oțetea (1894–1977) and economist Gheorghe Zane (1897–1978), as well as on the few instances Romanian scholars participated at the international economic history congresses organized by IEHA. It highlights both the contributions of the mentioned scholars to economic history research in Romania, the methodological limitations of their approach, and the impediments in building up an integrated and autonomous field of economic history.

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  • Bogdan Murgescu & Matei Gheboianu & Ionuț-Mircea Marcu, 2023. "Romania: Approaches and Limits of Economic History," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Antonie Doležalová & Catherine Albrecht (ed.), Behind the Iron Curtain, chapter 0, pages 223-246, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-031-31578-7_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-31578-7_8
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