Annales Universitatis Apulensis. Series Historica

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Issue Special Issue | Vol. 28

Churches and Political Power During Communism in Central and Eastern Europe: Individual Biographies and Institutional Mechanisms

30 April 2024

Doi: https://doi.org/10.29302/auash.2024.28.2

Editor: Dragoș Ursu

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Churches and Political Power Behind the Iron Curtain
1. The Catholic Church in Hungary and Romania during the Communist Dictatorship: A Comparative Analysis
Author GÁBOR BÁNKUTI - Associate Professor, University of Pecs, Department of Modern History, Pecs, Hungary
Keywords: Communist Dictatorship, Church history, Church and State, Denominational relations, Comparative analysis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29302/auash.2024.28.2.2

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2. John Paul II and Opposition Activities in Soviet Bloc Countries
Author MIROSŁAW SZUMIŁO - Researcher, Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw; Professor at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland
Keywords: John Paul II, the Soviet Bloc, the Catholic Church, anti-Communist opposition
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29302/auash.2024.28.2.3

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3. Relations Between the Soviet Union and the Vatican, According to Soviet Documents
Author Dorin-Demostene Iancu - Chair, The Archives of the Romanian Patriarchate, Romania
Keywords: Vatican, Moscow, John XXIII, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, diplomatic relations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29302/auash.2024.28.2.4

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4. Baptists from Romania and the Revolution of December 1989
Author MARIUS SILVEȘAN - Associate Professor, Faculty of Baptist Theology, Bucharest, Romania
Keywords: The Revolution of December 1989, Petru Dugulescu, Timișoara, László Tökés, Baptists, Dorel (Doru) Popa, Cristian Moisescu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29302/auash.2024.28.2.5

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5. The Situation of Monastic Houses in Soviet Moldova
Author ION XENOFONTOV - Professor, Faculty of History, The Moldova State University, Chișinău, Republic of Moldova
Keywords: Monasteries, Soviet policy, militant atheism, Soviet Moldova.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29302/auash.2024.28.2.6

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Religious Policy of Communist Regimes. Discourse and Institutional Mechanisms
1. UDPR or “A Fictitious Reality”: The Lesser-Known Aspects of the History of the Union of Democratic Priests in Romania
Author ANA-MARIA IANCU - Researcher, The Institute of Political Science and International Relations “Ion I.C. Brătianu”, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
Keywords: The Union of Democratic Priests in Romania; Romanian Communists; USSR; Ministry for Religious Denominations; Lumina Creștină.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29302/auash.2024.28.2.7

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2. The Discourse of Repression. Narrativity and Semantics Inside the Securitate Files of the Burning Bush from Antim Monastery
Author IOANA-ZOIA URSU - Post-Doctoral Researcher 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia; Historian, National Museum of Union, Alba Iulia, Romania
Keywords: discourse analysis, Securitate archives, intellectuals, clergy, religious mysticism, political enemies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29302/auash.2024.28.2.8

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3. Legal and Canonical Mechanisms for the Oppression of Orthodox Priests during the Communist Regime in Romania. Case Study: Father Arsenie Boca
Author RĂZVAN PERȘA - Lecturer, Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Keywords: Communist regime, Romanian Orthodox Church, Canonical rules, State intervention, religious freedom, Canon law, Father Arsenie Boca, Decree 410/1959 Monastic exclusions.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29302/auash.2024.28.2.9

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4. The Controversies of a Dramatic Biography. Bartolomeu Anania’s Mission to America in the Context of the Recalibration of State-Church Relations under Ceaușescu
Author DRAGOS URSU - Post-Doctoral Researcher 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba Iulia; Historian, National Museum of Union, Alba Iulia, Romania
Keywords: American Orthodoxy, Cultural collaboration, Valerian Trifa, Anti-Communist exile
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29302/auash.2024.28.2.10

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Biographical Studies. The Heroes of the Resistance Against Communism
1. The Case of Sándor Joó. The Fate of A Pastor in the Light of State Security Documents
Author ÁRON MÁTHÉ - Vice-chair, Committee of National Remembrance, Budapest, Hungary
Keywords: State Security; Communist oppression; Confessional Church; Dissidence; Informers
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29302/auash.2024.28.2.11

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2. A Realist and a Prophet: The Role of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński during Communist Rule in Poland
Author RAFAŁ ŁATKA - Associate Professor, Institute of History Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University/Institute of National Remembrance, Poland; “Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński” University, Warsaw Poland
Keywords: Catholic Church, primate Stefan Wyszyński, authorities, nation, society.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29302/auash.2024.28.2.12

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3. Condemned by Communists as the “Vatican’s spy”: the Biography of Catholic Priest Ștefan Tătaru
Author COSMIN BUDEANCĂ - The Institute for the Investigation of the Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile, Bucharest, Romania
Keywords: Communism, Greek Catholic Church, repression, Romanian prisons, post-communism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29302/auash.2024.28.2.13

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4. “The Desert of Spoken Words”: Conversations of Bishop Márton Áron Recorded by the Securitate in 1956–1980
Author DENISA-FLORENTINA BUDEANCĂ - Researcher, The National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives, Bucharest, Romania
Keywords: Márton Áron, Catholic Church, Securitate, surveillance, recorded conversations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29302/auash.2024.28.2.14

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Memorial Projects and Cultural Reflections of the Communist Past
1. Fighting for Memory: Clergy Repressed by the Soviet Union in the Transmission of the Sybir Memorial Museum
Author MARCIN ZWOLSKI - Researcher, Sybir Memorial Museum, Poland
Keywords: Soviet repressions, Polish Catholic Church, Sybir Memorial Museum
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29302/auash.2024.28.2.15

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2. Church, Clergy and Religion in the Contemporary Polish Film Discourse in the Years 1968–1990
Author RADOSLAW DOMKE - Professor, University of Zielona Góra, Department of Recent History, Zielona Góra, Poland
Keywords: Church, Christianity, cinematography of the People’s Republic of Poland, film themes, visual history
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29302/auash.2024.28.2.16

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