%0 Journal Article
%T Being a Historian of Romanian Communism, 23 Years After
%A Ruxandra Ivan
%J Sfera Politicii
%D 2013
%I Funda?ia Societatea Civil?
%X This article aims at presenting some of the difficulties of the nowadays research of the recent past. Three aspects will be put under scrutiny: the difficulty of dealing with the sources, the conceptual tools at the disposal of the researcher in order to depict his/her findings, and the ethical and political issues which surround the research on communism. We will show that the sources, as well as the concepts we use, are never innocent; and that no historical account of the recent past can be separated by the political and social environment in which it was produced.
%K communism
%K recent history
%K historiography
%K knowledge
%K power
%U http://www.sferapoliticii.ro/sfera/173/art14-Ivan.php