This paper analyzes the role of RFE in everyday life in the strictly controlled Romanian communist state by looking at the broadcasts of RFE's Romanian Department, their audience, and their impact. Along the lines of Benedict Anderson work on nationalism and identity (Anderson 1991), the specialists in cultural heritage Peter Aronsson and Gabriella Elgenius consider, in terms of imagination, national museums are uniquely placed to illuminate that which is actually imagined with reference to an emerging,re-emerging or fully formed nation‘‘(Aronsson, Elgenius 2011, 5).ĭuring the communist era, Radio Free Europe (RFE) was Romania's favorite radio station.

The impact of dramatic transformations happened between the last decade of socialist period and the first two decades of post-soviet Moldova history still constitutes a disputable topic among specialists from different fields, as well as the emerging public history discourses on memory, identity and nation-building. A Photographic Research Project by Ilya Rabinovich will be of great interest for a large audience of people from the lovers of photography, museums, history or Moldova‘s cultural life to the consecrated scholars studying visual arts, philosophy, ethnography, museology or memory and identity through the investigation of complex interrelationship between ‗gaze, diaspora, trauma‘ (p.

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