Intellectuals and Fascism in Interwar Romania

Cristina A. Bejan is an Oxford DPhil and a Rhodes and Fulbright scholar. She has held fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Georgetown University and the Woodrow Wilson Center.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Nae Ionescu, the Young Generation, 'The Spiritual Itinerary' and Education Abroad, 1927–32.- 3. The Criterion Association of Arts, Literature and Philosophy: Beginnings and Birth in Bucharest, 1932.- 4. The Criterion Association’s Activity of 1932: ‘Idols’ Symposia, Politics, Culture.- 5. Criterion Activity of 1933–35: Politics, Exhibitions, Symposia, Music and the Publication.- 6.  The Dissolution of the Criterion Association, 1934–35: The Credinţa Scandal, Male Friendship, Sexuality and Freedom of the Press.- 7. Rhinocerization: Political Activity and Allegiances of the Young Generation, 1935–41.- 8. The Fate of the Young Generation and the Legacy of Criterion.