A brief history of anarchism in Romania

During a 1923 series of lectures on political parties and doctrines at the Romanian Social Institute, the speaker who took the floor on the subject of anarchism concluded: “We do not have a proper militant or theoretical anarchist movement.” Was this really the case? Vlad Brătuleanu is probably the first to use archival documents and the libertarian-socialist press of the day as reference points, in order to sketch a history of Anarchism in Romania. His investigation begins with the second half of the nineteenth century (Zamfir Arbore, Ioan Nădejde), continuing with the period of Romanian history known as the Old Kingdom and the Unification of Greater Romania in 1918 (a period when anarchist thinkers and activists including Panait Mușoiu, Panait Zosîn, Neagu Negulescu, and others were active), up until the end of the interwar period. A Brief History of Anarchism in Romania is an interesting enquiry into the lives and activities of people, communities, and newspapers, of fascinating yet nearly forgotten groups and social or artistic experiments.

2023; 50 p.