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Revue des Sciences Politiques • No. 32 • 2011 CUPRINS POLITICAL HISTORY: THOUGHT AND PRACTICE Emanuel COPILAŞ, The ‘patriotic guards’ and the ‘popular war doctrine’. On 7 the ideological scaffolding of Socialist Romania’s security policy Mihaela Camelia BUZATU, The adherence of national minorities to the 21 National Renaissance Front Adi Horatiu SCHWARZ, The Jewish Question - a particular political issue in 27 modern Romania POLITICS TODAY: HOW TO DEAL WITH THE RECENT ISSUES? Cătălina Maria GEORGESCU, Does the position make the difference? 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Revue des Sciences Politiques • No. 32 • 2011 POLITICS & RELIGION: BUILDING UNITY WITHIN DIVERSITY Anca Parmena OLIMID, Understanding EU Conditionnality: A Conceptual Framework of National Sovereignty and Religious Freedom (Romania case 169 study) Raymond CANNING, Culture or Faith? Origins of Conflict in our Society. A 180 Catholic Perspective Robert W. HEFNER, Asian and Middle Eastern Islam 188 Gelu CĂLINA, The Disputes between Roman-Catholics and the 197 Anticlerical movement in France during the XVIII-XIX centuries Raluca DIMA, The European Union and transnational religion 204 BOOK REVIEW Anca Parmena Olimid, Istoria gândirii politice. Libertatea şi laicitatea în 217 spaţiul public european (secolele XIX-XXI) (Aurel PIŢURCĂ) 6 PPOOLLIIITTIIICCAALL HHIIISSTTOORRYY::: TTHHOOUUGGHHTT AANNDD PPRRAACCTTIIICCEE ORIGINAL PAPER Emanuel COPILAŞ The ‘patriotic guards’ and the ‘popular war doctrine’. On the ideological scaffolding of Socialist Romania’s security policy Emanuel COPILAŞ, West University of Timişoara, Faculty of Political Sciences, Philosophy and Communication Sciences Department of Political Sciences E-mail: [email protected] Abstract: „Prague spring”, or, in other words, Moscow’s intolerance for political and economical reforms challenging the communist monopoly in the „brotherly countries”, posed a considerable influence on the security policy of socialist Romania. It even led to major reinterpretations and reorganizations of the existent strategic conceptions. Accordingly, the „popular guards” were once again put in place, and the doctrine of „popular war” came to light. The constitutive extent in which these concepts were penetrated by the romantic-Leninist ideology constitutes the object of the present paper. Key words: romantic-Leninism, strategic thinking, „patriotic guards”, „popular war”, Warsaw Treaty. 7 Revista de Ştiinţe Politice. Revue des Sciences Politiques • No. 32 • 2011 Outlining romantic Leninism I have chosen to conceptualize the ideological structure of Romanian communism during the ‘Ceaușescu era’ under the name of romantic Leninism. An unusual mélange between different ideological extremes, romantic Leninism enters the stage once Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej’s young successor, Nicolae Ceaușescu, achieves and consolidates power. But romantic Leninism is much more than Ceaușescu’s thinking, despise the fact the latter represented the primary source which fueled it - reflecting a multitude of social tendencies, mentalities, bureaucratic inertias and ideological fidelities. The Leninist component of romantic Leninism is characterized by its permanent projective orientation in the sense of overcoming the ‘bourgeois’ world trough massive industrialization, considered to be validated by historic laws and, in general, trough intransigent attitude, ‘revolutionary vigilance’, oriented against any political or ideological shortcomings or ‘deviations’. The romantic component, on the other hand, includes the cult of heroism, exacerbated nationalist flares against all inside minorities, respectively for international affirmation, externally, the hypertrophyation of the party in relation to its leader, the general secretary of the Central Committee, a fascistic evolution, because only in fascist regimes the most important depository of legitimacy is the leader, not the party – and, in general, the importance accorded to the nation, a concept which the Romanian communists tried to ideologically aseptize trough, among others, a substantial contribution to the creation of a ‘new international order’. Leninism, romanticism, nationalism and fascism, paradoxically, but functionally, coexist inside this species of Leninism and confer it an unique identity, formed both by positivist elements, with an exacerbated modernity (Leninism), and form premodern elements (romanticism and nationalism). On short, a paramodern identity, which the regime tried to impose the society until its very last second of existence, hoping and acting trough any means possible to ideologically enroll an essentially hostile