{"title":"105 Years Since the Establishment of the Great Union The Stages of the Return of Bessarabia Within the Romanian Unitary National State","authors":"Nicolae Enciu","doi":"10.59295/dia.s.2023.1.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59295/dia.s.2023.1.02","url":null,"abstract":"Dedicated to the 105th anniversary of the Great Union of 1918, the present study traces the main stages of Bessarabia’s return to the Romanian cultural and civilization space, from which it had been illegally and abusively snatched in 1812, as a result of a transaction concluded between two colonial empires on account of the territorial integrity of the Romanian Countries. At a distance of 105 years from those historical events, the truth appears as indisputable that any other way than the union of Bessarabia with the Old Kingdom of Romania was doomed to inevitable failure, and it is the great merit of the Council of the Country and the Bessarabian politicians of that period – Constantin Stere, Pantelimon Halippa, Vasile Stroescu, Ion Inculeț, Ion Pelivan et al. – to have found the only solution that led to the harbor long-awaited by the entire population. Beyond all the insinuations and slander circulated during that period, with echoes to this day, the alternative of the union of Bessarabia with Romania can be traced to the example of the Moldavian SSR from 1924–1940, with the forced collectivization of agriculture and the disastrous famine, with deportations and Stalinist repressions, with the territorial dismemberment of Bessarabia in 1940, etc.","PeriodicalId":283642,"journal":{"name":"Dialogica. Revistă de studii culturale și literatură","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139298030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Process of Massive Russification of the Romanian Population Between the Prut and Dniester. An Overview Through the Activity Reports Drawn Up by the Army Priests, Participants in the Campaign in Bessarabia (1918–1919)","authors":"Constantin Neagu","doi":"10.59295/dia.s.2023.1.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59295/dia.s.2023.1.12","url":null,"abstract":"The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia (1917), the dissolution of the Tsarist Army and the collapse of the Eastern Front also had an impact on the security in Bessarabia. For this reason, the political authorities in Chisinau requested the Romanian Government to authorize the intervention of the Royal Army in the east of the Prut. During the military operations, the Romanian Army was accompanied by a number of approximately 40 mobilized priests. By fulfilling religious requirements, raising morale, maintaining discipline and promoting brotherly behavior towards the locals, they offered real spiritual guidance to the troops. In the interaction with the native civilian population, the military clergy officiated Orthodox acts of worship, they delivered patriotic and moralizing speeches and explained the national history, carrying out a true apostolic mission. They found on spot that the belonging of the Bessarabians to the Romanian nation had been undermined for more than a century by the policy of denationalization, intensively patronized by the power of the Russian double-headed eagle, often with the help of the Church.","PeriodicalId":283642,"journal":{"name":"Dialogica. Revistă de studii culturale și literatură","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139299499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liliana Condraticova, Constantin Toma, Marius Nicoara
{"title":"Dialogue Unites Us. Isolation Divides Us","authors":"Liliana Condraticova, Constantin Toma, Marius Nicoara","doi":"10.59295/dia.s.2023.1.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59295/dia.s.2023.1.01","url":null,"abstract":"This dialogue concerns the 105th anniversary of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania and a review of the activities, carried out together with Mr. Constantin Toma, the Mayor of Buzău Municipality and Mr. Marius-Adrian Nicoară, doctor in history, honorary councilor of the Buzău City Hall. Here are highlighted the relations of the municipality of Buzau with different localities from the Republic of Moldova, through the cultural, economic and interpersonal partnerships developed by the entities of the administrative-territorial units. Among these projects are the signing of the “Declaration of Union” on March 15, 2018; reconstruction of the Dniester River embankment, on the segment in front of the Citadel of Soroca; the inauguration of the busts of Ion Inculeț and Alexandru Marghiloman, on March 27, 2023, in Ialoveni; expansion of the “Petru Costin” Museum; The scientific conference “105 years since the Union of Bessarabia with Romania. Where power grows... The lesson of history and dignity of the year 1918” held in the Union Hall of the Academy of Music, Theater and Fine Arts in Chisinau; the commitment to rehabilitate the building by bearing all costs by the Buzău Local Council; a substantial book donation; the concert “The Romanian language is my homeland”; the “Chisinau for Buzau” project; the series of scientific conferences generically named “Zilele Alexandru Marghiloman” et al.","PeriodicalId":283642,"journal":{"name":"Dialogica. Revistă de studii culturale și literatură","volume":"212 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139302147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constatin Garoflid and his Vision of the Agrarian Problem","authors":"Viorel Gheorghe","doi":"10.59295/dia.s.2023.1.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59295/dia.s.2023.1.06","url":null,"abstract":"Constantin Garoflid was a politician, a farmer and a promoter of modernity in Romanian agriculture. With studies of medicine and economics in Paris, Garoflid became one of the most famous specialists in Romanian agriculture. The minister of agriculture in several governments, was involved in carrying out the agrarian reform after the First World War. He fought for the establishment of scientific institutions such as the Institute for Agronomic Research of Romania and the Academy of Agriculture. He was a proponent of large farms, of the use of scientific research in agriculture and of creating a close link with industry. He has published numerous articles and books on the development of Romanian agriculture.","PeriodicalId":283642,"journal":{"name":"Dialogica. Revistă de studii culturale și literatură","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139291576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Language of Oneiric Images in the Poetry of Leonid Dimov","authors":"Eugenia Ciumasu","doi":"10.59295/dia.2023.3.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59295/dia.2023.3.03","url":null,"abstract":"Many either do not understand the nature of Dimov’s creation, or understand it superficially, not recognizing his originality and treating him as a controversial poet. However, everyone is fascinated by his poems and admires the creator, as the world of his poems is permeated by an abstract drawing, a telecollage with new playful conventions, transmuted from another reality. Neither the dream nor the reality is concrete, but abstract, made according to an enigmatic and tempting code. Dimov’s poetry is seductive, because a reader cannot resist a free creator. Oneirism binds its creator and lecturer through a heuristic promise. For Leonid Dimov, poetry is born from the conclusion of a pact between poetry and life, between poetry and the world. The poet destroys the pre-poetic world and builds a new, dreamlike world, living in it like a strange demon, and projecting his image as an artist in all kinds of allegorical representatives: the jester, the acrobat, the juggler, the jeweler, etc. Dimov approached the dream taken as an abstract model and not as a source of creation, following a neo-oneiric poetics. By creating dreams, the author encompasses the whole of existence, entering these invented, alien, even inhuman worlds.","PeriodicalId":283642,"journal":{"name":"Dialogica. Revistă de studii culturale și literatură","volume":"98 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139292020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aspects Regarding the Bessarabian Society in the Correspondence of the President of the Council of Ministers, Alexandru Marghiloman (May-July 1918)","authors":"Daniel Silviu Niculae","doi":"10.59295/dia.s.2023.1.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59295/dia.s.2023.1.10","url":null,"abstract":"With the Union with Bessarabia, the Romanian government took over a territorial administration influenced by the tsarist regime and then by the events that took place after the Bolshevik revolution in 1917. If the central administration of the country was carried out through the Country Council (legislative power) and the Council of Ministers (executive power) at the county, commune or village level, the local administration was represented by numerous commissions and committees. The Alexandru Marghiloman government was the first to start the process of implementing the romanian administration’s principles.","PeriodicalId":283642,"journal":{"name":"Dialogica. Revistă de studii culturale și literatură","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139300686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Confession of an Enchantress: Memorial and Ethnocultural Valences of the World of the Real Intertwined With That of the Magical Imaginary","authors":"Valentin Arapu","doi":"10.59295/dia.2023.3.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59295/dia.2023.3.12","url":null,"abstract":"The memorial sources provide relevant information about the lives and personalities of the characters mentioned, while also shedding light on controversial issues concerning the role of the Enchantresses in folk culture and medicine. The memorial confession of Iuliana Popa – the young student who knows how to charm – contains important data about the personality of some of the Enchantresses from the village of Slobozia, Gârceni commune, Vaslui county. Although most of the information is more in the realm of the past, some magical therapy practices are still widespread in the community. In the protagonist’s perception, the distinction between proper Enchantresses who believe in God and witches who are on the opposite side of the Christian faith is quasi important. Of particular value are the local traditions and customs that give charm and originality to the community of Slobozia village.","PeriodicalId":283642,"journal":{"name":"Dialogica. Revistă de studii culturale și literatură","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139301083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Christian Virtues Illustrated in the Biography of the Great Buzau Politician – Alexandru Marghiloman – Craftsman of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania","authors":"Gheorghe Neagu","doi":"10.59295/dia.s.2023.1.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59295/dia.s.2023.1.14","url":null,"abstract":"Raised in the city of Buzău, Alexandru Marghiloman covers a special place in the gallery of great personalities who have served the destiny of the Romanian nation. He has been known in historiography as a standard of sophisticated elegance and, equally, carrying the stigma of controversy. Loved and respected by those who knew him closely, he simultaneously suffered the repudiation of his political opponents and of an appreciable segment of posterity, which ignored his deeply patriotic aspirations. Like an arch over time, the present study provides us with the prospect of a modest, sincere, scrutinizing and persevering approach to the religious-moral portrait of the great craftsman of the Union of Bessarabia with Romania. With ineffable joy we discover the weather-dusted face of a frank and sensitive aristocrat, with human weaknesses, but guided by the polar star of discreet Christian principles and virtues.","PeriodicalId":283642,"journal":{"name":"Dialogica. Revistă de studii culturale și literatură","volume":"13 4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139298474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simion Mehedinți – a Scholar Minister in a Sacrificial Government","authors":"Mircea Tanase","doi":"10.59295/dia.s.2023.1.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59295/dia.s.2023.1.08","url":null,"abstract":"Simion Mehedinți was Minister of Education and Cults in the government of Alexandru Marghiloman (March – October 1918), when the great politician from Buzău was called by King Ferdinand I to form a new government and sign the Peace Treaty with the Central Powers. Simion Mehedinţi studied in Bucharest, Paris, Berlin and Leipzig, where he obtained the degree of doctor of philosophy (geography specialty), with the qualification “Summa cum laude”. In 1900, he taught the first university geography course in Bucharest, which constitutes the act of birth of this science in our country, Simion Mehedinţi being considered the founder of Romanian geography, recognized as one of the greatest theorists of this science worldwide. In 1905 he was elected a member of the Romanian Geographical Society, in 1908 he became, at only 40 years old, a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy, and in 1915, at 47 years old, a full member of it. As the Minister of Education and Religion, Simion Mehedinţi promoted two education laws, through which he pursued the reform of rural education. Between 1919–1939 he was a teacher at the Superior War School in Bucharest, where he taught General Geography. He died on December 14, 1962, in Bucharest, in total anonymity, at the age of 96.","PeriodicalId":283642,"journal":{"name":"Dialogica. Revistă de studii culturale și literatură","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139299460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Portraiture in a Cantemirian-Inspired Manuscript: Faces of the Turkish Emperors, 1710","authors":"Iraida Condrea","doi":"10.59295/dia.2023.3.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59295/dia.2023.3.02","url":null,"abstract":"Appreciated since his lifetime as a great connoisseur of the Ottoman Empire, Dimitrie Cantemir wrote several works on the history, art and customs of the Turks, referring to the reigns of several sultans. This theme also appears in a manuscript written in Romanian with Cyrillic characters, dated 1710, which contains the briefly described histories of 27 Turkish sultans, as well as their portraits. Since 1931, when it was discovered, and until now, several researchers have discussed the authorship of the text and its possible relationship with the work of Dimitrie Cantemir. In this article, the content, style and language of the manuscript are analyzed, aspects that have been less studied until now.","PeriodicalId":283642,"journal":{"name":"Dialogica. Revistă de studii culturale și literatură","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139299918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}