Daily lives in Bucharest 1946–1950
Journal Title: Martor. The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review - Year 2012, Vol 17, Issue 17
Abstract
The text is an excerpt from the author’s volume “Viața noastră cea de toate zilele” [Our Daily life] (Bucharest: Curtea Veche, 2009) narrating memories triggered by reading the Securitate files of Anton Golopenția, surveilled by the political police between 1949 and 1950. Translated in English by Lidia Bradley.
Authors and Affiliations
Sanda Golopenția
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