The founding texts of a revolution : Romania 1989

The events which took place in Romania in December 1989 were actually the combined result of a number of factors, both political and social. The present paper will focus on uncovering the strict interdependency prevailing between the ever-present and still so popular conspiracy theories and the equally persistent propagation of the so-called official version of the 1989 Revolution by the Romanian government, which mainly accents the spontaneous character of social mobilisation and the martyrological magnitude of the December events. In the contemporary political discourse from post-communist Romania, the term revolution is commonly used uncritically towards these events. As we will try to demonstrate, such a state of things should not be surprising in a country where, by all accounts, political power is interested in cultivating a heroic version of the new society creationist myth. The texts of the Romanian Revolution, which will be analysed in this article, were relatively few, chaotic and incoherent. The inconsistencies of the political solutions included in these documents prove that the power was held by those on the street and that the members of the communist nomenclature, the only ones who had exercised power before 1989, confiscated it. The analysed documents announce the impossibility of a political and social turn, which was proven by events of the following decade.