page_title: Socialist realism in Romania
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Socialist realism in Romania / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: 100 Romanian lei from 1952 - reverse. Română: Spatele bancnotei de 100 lei din 1952.
context_page_description: After World War II, socialist realism, like in the Soviet Union, was adopted by a number of new communist states in Eastern Europe, including Romania. This was accompanied by a series of organizational moves, such as the incarceration of numerous poets linked to the fascist paramilitary organization, the Iron Guard. Between 1948 and 1956, Romania's pre-existing system of values and corresponding cultural institutions were restructured in an attempt to create a "new socialist man". As in the political and economic spheres, cultural reforms were sometimes forcibly imposed, intellectuals' links with the West were severed, and the Romanian Academy and long-standing professional organizations such as the Society of Romanian Writers or the Society of Romanian Composers were dissolved and replaced with new ones, from which anti-communist members were removed. The works of antisemitic authors, such as Octavian Goga, Nichifor Crainic and Mircea Vulcănescu, were also banned.
context_section_description: Bucharest's Casa Scînteii is a signature example of a socialist-realist building in Romania.
caption: Casa Scînteii on the 100 lei banknote from 1952
exif: {}