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e formation of the new manBogdan Ficeac The Communist Censorship and theFormation of the Fresh Man, Nemira Publishing Residence, Politica collection, 1999, Bucharest, 125 pages

First published in 1999 in Nemira publishing house in the Politica collection, i may admit it is main books that looks upon the devices of opression and manipultion during the communism rgime period in Romania. But what stroke me regarding Ficeacs publication was the multitude of examples of how a Communist Party very speedily succeded in gaining control over all the forms of mass-information of this time. The analysis that Bogdan Ficeac makes is quite extensively, a proof with the hard work of collecting info that he had done.

The book is composed mainly of two parts. The 1st part relates to the internal determination of a totalitatian rgime to make its residents to worship the politics leaders. The second one is even more arid because of the many quatations from the RCP govrmental ordinances, laws, and regulamentations, however in spite of this fact is the juciest part of the book, you can expect to convince of this yourselves.

The niche is certainly not new, however the approach is extremely accurate. Initial, an social-psychological attempt to discover the utility of thought control intended for totalitarian rgimes, because thought control is exactly what Ficeac says is the substantial goal of the communist or perhaps fundamentalist rgime. If you ever wondered how performed the socialists induce that great amount of obedience for the great majority of the population, the answer that Bogdan Ficeac provides will surprise some of you it is not an instance of obedience but rather an instance of idea, a much more inner resort. The primary goal of the leaders of your totalitarian strategy is not to control by the use of pressure (coercion) nor to eliminate their opponents, but rather to ascertain their the subjects to really think how a leaders want. In order to make that happen the frontrunners resort to controling the information. Thus, the indivuduals life knowledge and the wholeness of his impressions, conceptions and life conclusions happen to be remodeled when you use the leaders. What is the leaders in the event not a population of hard-working, 100% compliant individuals? Only that the frontrunners (do you remember? ) want all their subjects to behave according to the condition ideology freely, by just about every citizen very own choice. In this sense, they will (the leaders) begin to produce the proper platform for the (artificial) emrgence of what Ficeac phone calls the new man. In Romania this complicated and incredible plan was carried following USSRs case in point, sometimes even for the smallest details, a good example through this sense I am able to recall the replacement of the phrase censure which has a more soften formula: the control of the press, guides, and printings. This replacement has not brought any transform, on the contrary, it absolutely was made for an improved concealment of the hardening of the state control over basically any sort of source of data.

The communist rgimes controlled all of the sources of mass information for 2 reasons: on one hand to nourish the thoughts of their topics so as to will take them in the desired direction and the additional to eliminate the other sources of information that could endanger their objective.

Bogdan Ficeac uses a close glance at the emotional and internal areas of how people embrace the state ideology and censorship. Right here he identifies eight methods trough that the state may gain control over the people mind: the control of human being communications, the mystic treatment, the chastity request, the cult of confession, the sacred technology, the re-molding of the language, the règle above man, and the social delimitation. The author gives cases for every method showing the actions through which the Romanian Communist Party concealed any facts that could have prejudiced the trustworthiness of the socialist system (you actually have to be aware that the Cold War was on and the Soviet Union along using its allies wanted to prove to the whole human kind that a socialist rgime was your best system ever, because posed in defenders of human rights, liberty, and popular democracy). This is not new for Ficeac, who had examined the phenomenon of treatment very closely and he has underlined the effects of mental manipulation especially through mass-media. The theorists of totalitarianism use lie as their most effective instrument in order to redefine the past (the national as well as international history) and finally the chinese language. By redefining the language they ease the implementation of the new ideas concerning the superiority of the socialist rgime.

Bibliography:

1 . Bogdan Ficeac, Tehnici de manipulare(rom), Nemira installment payments on your R. M. Lifton, Variación gandirii dans le cas où psihologia totalitarianismului (rom. ) blishing House, Politica collection, 1998