A short history of the post-war archives in Romania

The administration of the national archives is part of the effort to reorganize and assert a historical identity, in the new created states from the beginning of the 20 century. In the conception of some inter-war period Romanian historians, those archives should be more than a depositary of history but most be used at maximum for the "knowledge, clarification and solving the issues of the national history", also by the creation of the specialists able to read and interpret the documents. In Romania, the communist regime, obsessively preoccupied with history, gave to the archives the role of certifying the various ideas and legitimation strategies envisioned by the ideologues of the party. What happened after was facing the culture of secrecy, without specialists able to cope with the documents and to read them from a scientific perspective, free of any kind of ideology.