Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The interwar period in Romania was characterized by a complicated interaction betweendemocratic ambitions and authoritarian control in the field of the press. Although the 1923Constitution protected freedom of expression, later governments enforced censorship—particularly intimes of political unrest. This was seen in national publications as well as local media from towns likeGalați and Brăila, which were so important for regional political dialogue. The methods ofcensorship, the organizations in charge of press control, and the techniques used by writers andreporters to get beyond constraints are investigated in this paper. To negotiate these restrictions,eminent writers such as Tudor Arghezi, Camil Petrescu, and Nae Ionescu employed allegory, satire,and coded language. The paper also looks at the case of a suppressed story from the Acțiunea daily inBrăila, showing how smaller newspapers encountered the same difficulties as national ones.
Author: Cezara-Ioana MEREUȚĂ
Institution: "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4410198906