A tale of two childhoods : the virtual child and the real child in Romania, 1970s and 1980s

摘要

This thesis deals with the everyday use of propaganda in Romania, between 1971 and 1989.It explores the way in which the propaganda discourse of the Romanian Communist Partywas disseminated through popular culture artifacts targeting children: Pioneers' magazines,textbooks, Almanacs and moralizing stories. These artifacts configured the image of a modelchild, whose preoccupations complied with the requirements of the Romanian CommunistParty and communicated a set of recommended practices, to be followed by Romanianchildren. At the same time, the thesis incorporates the response of the actual children to thesedesirable practices, and implicitly, their response to state propaganda.