Writing History in a Propaganda Institute : Political Power and Network Dynamics in Communist Romania

Romania’s Party History Institute has been portrayed as a loyal executioner of the Communist Party’s will. Yet, recent investigations of the institute’s archive tell a different story. In 1990, the Institute for Historical and Socio-Political Studies of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party (previously the Party History Institute) was closed. Since its foundation in 1951 it had produced thousands of books and journals for the Communist Party on the history of both the Party and