The New Position of the Study of Italian Language in Higher Education in Romania after 1948

The present study aims, based on some unpublished documents from 1949 due to Italian diplomacy, to reconstruct some sequences from the difficult path of the evolution of Italian studies in Romania under the regime of people’s democracy. Promoted especially in the interwar years in the context of the national cultural policy supported by Unified Romania as well as during the Second World War due to the political-military alliances of the moment, the study of the Italian language and literature in Romanian higher education institutions will be considerably restricted after 1948, once with the establishment of the hegemony of the Russian language and literature in the field. The present contribution focuses its attention both on the evolution of Italian studies in the structure of the Universities of Bucharest, Iași and Cluj, as well as on the destiny of the study of the Italian language in the Higher Institutes dedicated to economic sciences or in the Polytechnics, following the perception of Italian diplomacy and the considerations on the subject of the representatives of Italy in Bucharest.