Diana-Mihaela PĂUNOIU
3rd Degree Scientific Researcher, PhD., “C.S. Nicolăescu-Plopşor” Institute for Research in Social Studies and Humanities from Craiova, of the Romanian Academy, Romania;
E-mail: dianamihaelapaunoiu@yahoo.com.
Published on October 31, 2017
Abstract
Festive propaganda represented one of the main instruments of the carlist propaganda machinery, putting a monopole on organisation of national, religious and royal celebrations happened from the beginning of the royal dictatorship regime. In this context, we plan to retrace and analyse, using information coming from archive documents, the organisation and deployment of the Holy celebration of Christmas within activity program of The Guard of the Motherland in Oltenia county between years 1938-1939.
Keywords
ancestral traditions, Christmas Holiday, Guard of the Motherland, official propaganda, carlist dictatorship.
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