The Past and Its Solutions Against Fear: The Romanian- Russian Relations in
History and Actuality (IV): Temptation of the Revolution and Spiritual
Interferences
The methodological options of the historian in the effort to reconstitute the
past have favored the first preoccupations saved for collective memory by
writing down its event dimension in which the political and military factors
still takes priority despite the objections of the followers of
historiographical genres of interference or of the contestants of the
positivist paradigm stated two centuries ago. The evolution of the Romanian-
Russian relations at the end of the Middle Ages and at the beginning of the
pre-modern era is no exception. The often unequal competition of the historian
against the officials remains a constant to the present, in the context of the
so-called external threats to European security or the relation between
integration and identity in the context of concurrent readings of the past,
inspired by the revival of national militancy in a region of political and
confessional borders. A possible response to these challenges is the recovery
of some aspects that were not frequently approached in historical writing in
the last decades, precisely because of their instrumentalization in the era of
dogmatic Marxism, The observer interested in social analysis has the
opportunity of the contact with multiple valences of the individual and
community experiences consumed in a space of contrasts and of norms relativism,
able to inspire a reflection on the individual-society relationship or the
various types of manifestation of freedom in relation to the requirements of
the modern state.
FLORIAN DUMITRU SOPORAN
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