Cîntarea României

Socialist Republic of Romania
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Organizations Romanian Communist Party Securitate Union of Communist Youth Great National Assembly State Council Patriotic Guards Pioneers Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy Orthodox Church Scînteia Comturist
Leaders Petru Groza Ana Pauker Ion Gheorghe Maurer Chivu Stoica Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej Nicolae Ceaușescu
Ideology National Communism July Theses Protochronism Ceaușescu's cult of personality
Policies Collectivization Nationalization Literacy campaigns Five-Year Plans De-Stalinization Systematization 1980s austerity
Culture Daciad Cîntarea României Cenaclul Flacăra Obsessive decade
Repression Censorship Danube – Black Sea Canal Reeducation Bărăgan deportations Tămădău Affair Pitești prison Sighet prison
Protests and resistance 1940s-1950s resistance Bucharest student movement of 1956 Dissent under Nicolae Ceaușescu Jiu Valley miners' strike of 1977 SLOMR Brașov Rebellion Romanian Revolution
Relationship with the USSR Soviet occupation (1944–1958) SovRom Bessarabian issue

Cântarea României (literally "Song [of praise] to Romania") was an annual national cultural festival in the Socialist Republic of Romania between 1976 and 1989 intended to promote ideologically-approved artistic manifestations, featuring both professional and amateur artists from across the country.^[1] Being part of Ceaușescu's policies to promote National Communism in Romania, the festival used folklore (especially folk music) and it had a role in shaping the national identity of the Romanians and the view of Romanian history.^[1]

The festival gets its name from a 19th-century essay by Alecu Russo.

References

1 2 Dragoș Petrescu, "Communist legacies in the New Europe: history, ethnicity and the creation of a 'socialist' nation in Romania, 1945-1989", in Conflicted Memories: Europeanizing Contemporary Histories, edited by Konrad H. Jarausch, Thomas Lindenberger, Berghahn Books, 2011, ISBN 9780857453600, p.48

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