Daily lives in Bucharest 1946–1950
Journal Title: Martor. The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review - Year 2012, Vol 17, Issue 17
Abstract
The text is an excerpt from the author’s volume “Viața noastră cea de toate zilele” [Our Daily life] (Bucharest: Curtea Veche, 2009) narrating memories triggered by reading the Securitate files of Anton Golopenția, surveilled by the political police between 1949 and 1950. Translated in English by Lidia Bradley.
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Sanda Golopenția
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