Dorin Cosmin VASILE PhD. candidate, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Craiova; E-mail: cosminsile@yahoo.com Abstract After the 1989 Revolution, the term “transition” was associated almost immediately with the term “reform”. The transition required a long series of reforms consisting in the abolition of existing institutions and realities duringthe communist regime …
Read More »Cezar AVRAM, Aspects regarding Romania’s foreign and military policy during the period 1941–1943
Cezar AVRAM Scientific Researcher I, PhD., “C.S. Nicolăescu-Plopşor” Institute for Research in Social Studies and Humanities from Craiova, of the Romanian Academy; E-mail: avramcezar@yahoo.com Abstract This material captures the politico-military relations between Romania and Italy during the period 1941–1943, a brief presentation of the Romanian diplomacy at that time. Pendulating …
Read More »Marusia CÎRSTEA, Louis Barthou – on a diplomatic mission to secure an “Oriental Agreement” (1934)
Marusia CÎRSTEA Associate Professor, PhD, University of Craiova, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of History, Political Sciences and International Relations; E-mail: cirsteamara@yahoo.com Abstract The article is founded on a number of unpublished documents and it highlights the fact that the French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou had a plan of negotiation …
Read More »Gabriela BOANGIU, Social biography about the communist period – family, property and collective memory
Gabriela BOANGIU 3rd Degree Scientific Researcher, PhD. “C.S. Nicolăescu-Plopşor” Institute for Research in SocialStudies and Humanities from Craiova, of the Romanian Academy; E-mail: boangiu_g@yahoo.com Abstract Life histories or social biographies, sometimes called “small histories”, fascinate not only from an aesthetic or slightly nostalgic perspective, as sometimes happens with memorialistic writings, …
Read More »Loredana-Maria ILIN-GROZOIU, Consecrated traditional cures and treatments from Oltenia using medicinal wine remedies
Loredana-Maria ILIN-GROZOIU 3rd Degree Scientific Researcher, PhD., “C.S. Nicolăescu-Plopşor” Institute for Research in Social Studies and Humanities from Craiova, of the Romanian Academy; E-mail: lorelayy2007@yahoo.com Abstract The present study, based onthe information provided by the performers from Oltenia, resulted from our personal field research, intends the identification of some particularities …
Read More »Anca CEAUȘESCU, Symbols and decorative motifs in the popular architecture from Oltenia
Anca CEAUȘESCU 3rd Degree Scientific Researcher, PhD., “C.S. Nicolăescu-Plopşor” Institute for Research in Social Studies and Humanities from Craiova, of the Romanian Academy; E-mail: ancaceausescu@yahoo.com Abstract Since the first stages of its existence, the dwelling has been awarded with specific signs and symbols that are based on the belief of …
Read More »Ileana CIOAREC, Cionea’s building from Radomir, Dolj County
Ileana CIOAREC 3rd Degree Scientific Researcher, PhD. “C.S. Nicolăescu-Plopşor” Institute for Research in Social Studies and Humanities from Craiova, of the Romanian Academy; E-mail: ileanacioarec@yahoo.com Abstract At the end of the 18th century and the first half of the 19tha great number of Macedo-Romanians established to Craiova and its surroundings, …
Read More »Mircea NEGRU, Dacian hand-made pottery discovered in the archaeological site of Reșca-Romula
Mircea NEGRU Assoc. Prof., PhD / Senior Archaeologist, Department of Law and Administrative Sciences, Spiru Haret University Bucharest, Romania / Faculty of History – Center for Comparative Studies of Ancient Societies, University of Bucharest, Romania; E-mail: mircea_negru_arch@yahoo.com Abstract The native pottery in Roman and Former Roman provinces is still a …
Read More »Simona LAZĂR, The characteristics of the settlements from the beginning of the Iron Age in Oltenia
Simona LAZĂR 3rd Degree Scientific Researcher, PhD., “C.S. Nicolăescu-Plopşor” Institute for Research in SocialStudies and Humanities from Craiova, of the Romanian Academy; E-mail: simonalazar@ymail.com Abstract First Iron Age it seems that we assist at the disappearingof vast settlements, with several levels of habitation. This fact could be explained although the …
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