In March 1945, the Petru Groza government, controlled by the Communist Party was installed to power, under Soviet pressure. Before 1989, the communist regime considered this its founding moment. I
In 2014, Europe celebrated the centennial of the start of WWI, an event that deeply scarred the 20th century.
In the wake of WWII, Romanians hoped the Soviets would finally leave Romania and that the Americans would come to put things back on track. This was their only hope for a better future and a firm belief of the anti-communist resistance.
WWI brought about the Entente powers victory and a fundamental change in Europes geopolitical map.
Mihai Eminescu is Romanias national poet, and literary historians consider him one of the fathers of the modern Romanian language.
A martyr of democracy and one of the most important figures in Romania's rebirth after 1989...
Romania and North Korea had a very close relationship, which began in the 1970s.
The foreign language programming at the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation was initially intended for diplomats posted in Bucharest, starting in 1932.
Historians are unanimous in describing epidemics as a strong factor influencing human civilization.
Some historians like to think of their occupation as a precise science. Others believe that history can be made more relevant through literary procedures. It is the case of Doina Rusti, who has recently published her novel The Phanariot Manuscript
The story of one of the most socially engaged writers of the early 20th century in Romania.
The only epic in the Romanian language “Tiganiada or “The Gypsies Camp published in a final version by Jacques Byck between 1800 and 1812 reflects the enlightenment ideas of the Transylvanian School.
Weapons have always been a source of income for manufacturers and the emergence of the state meant protecting and favouring the production of weapons, for national security reasons as well as for money-making purposes.
Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej, Romanias first communist leader and one of the masterminds of the process of Sovietisation that started in 1945 under the control of the Red Army, died in 1965.
The first major genocide of the century was perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenians.
