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RÃZVAN PÂRÂIANUports du nationalism et du communisme en Europe de l’Est,” Le Débat 84(March – April 1995), pp. 105-120.18 Paqueteau, “‘Congelatorul’ ideilor false,” Revista 22 36 (7-13 September 1994),p. 13.19 In this respect see Katherine Verdery, National Ideology under Socialism: Identityand Cultural Politics in Ceausescu’s Romania, (Berkeley: University of CaliforniaPress, 1991), pp. 167-214.20 Associate Professor of Public International Law, Paris I – Panthéon, SorbonneUniversity, 1994-; Professor of International Law: Faculty of Law, Universityof Bucharest, 1990-; Associate Professor of International Law, Academy ofEconomic Studies, Bucharest, 1977-1979, 1984-1985; Director of Studies,International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg, 1984; Visiting Fellow,Division of Human Rights and Peace, UNESCO, 1980; Visiting Research-Fellow,International Peace Institute, Norwegian Institute of InternationalAffairs, Oslo, 1980; Research-Fellow, Institute of Legal Research, Bucharest,1973-1990.21 Zeno Millea, ed., 1989-1998: Istoria Maghiaro-Maghiarã în citate (1989-1998:A Hungarian-Hungarian history in documents) (Bucharest: Asociaþia pentruEducaþie Democraticã, 1999).22 “A fost lansatã lucrarea 1989-1998: Istoria Maghiaro-Maghiarã în citate”(The book, entitled 1989-1998: A Hungarian-Hungarian history in documents,has been launched), Dimineaþa (17 September 1999), p.3.23 Adrian Nãstase, “Aceastã lucrare este antinaþionalã, dezvoltând toate tezeleistoriografiei maghiare” (This work is anti-national, developing all theses ofHungarian historiography), Timpul (26 October – 1 November 1999), pp. 8-9.24 One interpretation was offered by Cornel Nistorescu. He considered thenationalist virulence of PDSR an attempt to attract the electorate of thenationalist parties in Transylvania, and not only there. See Cornel Nistorescu,“Drobul de sare” (The salt block), Evenimentul Zilei (14 October 1999), p. 1.25 Nãstase, “Aceastã lucrare este antinaþionalã,” p. 8. Robert Roesler was an Austrianhistorian of the nineteenth century, who negated the theory of Daco-Romanian territorial continuity in his Romänische Studien (Leipzig, 1871). Hisarguments were criticized by the Romanian historian, A. D. Xenopol.26 Nãstase, “Aceastã lucrare este antinaþionalã,” p. 8.27 Nãstase, “Aceastã lucrare este antinaþionalã,” p. 9.28 Nastase, “Aceasta lucrare este antinaþionalã,” p. 9.29 Then, one might find an explanation why “for the first time in the history ofRomania, the prisoners and academicians agreed on something?” See AdrianCioroianu, “Puºcãriaºi ºi academicieni” (Prisoners and academicians), Dilema351 (29 October – 4 November 1999), p. 4.30 Recently, Cristian Tudor Popescu (born in 1956) published several books.Copiii fiarei: Scrieri (The children of the beast: Collection of articles), (Iaºi:Polirom, 1998), Timp mort: Scrieri (Dead time: Collection of articles) (Iaºi:Polirom, 1998), Vremea mânzului sec (The time of the dry colt) (Iaºi: Polirom,1998). Until 1989, Popescu was mainly known as a science fiction writer.31 It was called “non-interfering policy in the domestic affairs of a sovereignstate.”114