Institutionalization of Indoctrination

Paul Dragos Aligica is professor of Political Science at the University of Bucharest and asenior research fellow in theF. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University.Simona Preda received her Ph.D in History from the University of Bucharest in 2011, and MA in History of Ideas from the University of Bucharest in 2006. She is the author and co-author of five books on Romanian history in the context of modernization of Eastern Europe and on Communist education and propaganda.

• Chapter 1: Ideocracy, Totalitarianism and the “New Man”Chapter 2: The Functions and Logic of the Indoctrination and Propaganda InstitutionsPart II: The Romanian Case (1948-1989): Descriptive and Narrative FacetsChapter 3: Indoctrination and Propaganda in Communist Romania: An Overview of the General Patterns of Organization and Evolution Over TimeChapter 4: The Ideological Worker: An Overview of its Profiles and Functions in the Context of the Romanian SystemChapter 5: The Ideological Turn in Higher Education: Further Insights from the Romanian CasePart III: Evolving Frameworks of Analysis and Emerging Research AgendasChapter 6: A Failure of Institutionalization: A Key Insight from the Case Study and the Challenges of its External ValidityChapter 7: Research Directions in the Study of Indoctrination and its Institutionalization

The work of reconstruction of indoctrination in Communist Romania by Aligica and Preda is brilliant, the writing is superbly readable, and by the end of the book the reader comes to appreciate the new research directions suggested by the authors in the study of indoctrination and its institutionalization. The scholarship is impressive and sets new standards.