Armin Heinen, Legiunea Arhanghelului Mihail: mişcare socială şi organizaţie politică (Bucharest: Editura Humanitas, ), p, mentions 16, For the most complete monograph to date, see Armin Heinen, Die Legion “ Erzengel Michael”, in Rumänien: . 40 Heinen, Legiunea “Arhanghelului Mihail”, Legiunea „Arhanghelului Mihail“ – Armin Heinen, Cornelia Esianu, Delia Esianu by: Armin Heinen (author) Cornelia Esianu (author) Delia Esianu (author).

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The leaders of the Iron Guard often wore traditional peasant costumes with crucifixes and bags of Romanian soil around their necks to emphasise their commitment to authentic Romanian folk values, in marked contrast to Romania’s Francophile elite who preferred to dress in the style of the latest fashions of Paris.
The Legion could penetrate these social categories using innovative political methods, among which charismatic propaganda figured predominantly. He halted close to me, and I could see nothing monstrous or evil about him.
Rădăcinile intelectuale ale legionarismului
Charisma, Religion, and Ideology: The Borderlands atmin Romania and the Soviet Unionp. Oxford University Press,1— According to Ioanid, the Legion “willingly inserted strong elements of Orthodox Christianity into its political ideology to the point of becoming one of the rare modern European political movements with a religious ideological structure.
Reportedly, in four main factions were jostling for prominence: Educated by his father, Ion Zelea Codreanu, in a highly militant nationalist spirit, Codreanu proved to have a remarkably combative attitude at an early age.
It was difficult for a soul to resist this wave of creator enthusiasm, no matter how dry it was.
While nests and garrisons were led by charismatic leaders emerging spontaneously, the political leadership of regional and central structures hsinen appointed by Codreanu and was directly responsible to him, in an effort to prevent rival exploitation of charisma that could result in defections. Trivia About Die Legion “Erzen Building on partial electoral data, Eugen Weber argued in a pioneering article that the mass base of the Legion was recruited predominantly from the impoverished, overwhelmingly rural, and geographically isolated regions of Romania, such as northern and southern Moldova, southern Bessarabia, and the center of Transylvania.
Something of an adventurer by nature, I decided I must take a closer look at this fabulous being, whatever the cost.

leegiunea Buy Print version amazon. He directed his efforts at building a movement of devoted followers and specifically targeted certain age or socio-professional categories, such as students. It was difficult for a soul to resist this wave of creator enthusiasm, no matter how dry it was. In a secret report, the Hungarian political secretary in Bucharest judged that in late the Iron Guard was divided among three main factions: University of California Press,2: In stormy, innovating upsurges of unlimited sacrifice and of demonic criminality!
He professed that the Archangel Michael had appeared to him and urged him to dedicate his life to God. And what words animated by love of the country and of the Romanian people! He remained in jail for an additional six months for shooting his comrade Vernicescu for alleged betrayal. By exposing the built-in violent character of the movement, this perspective also confronts later Legionary propaganda, which emphasizes the religious character of the Legion but plays down its crimes as accidental or foreign to its spirit.
The others, the multitudes, will come later, but they will surely come. He had forbidden Codreanu to speak, but had not outlawed the meeting itself.
Reacting to the hostility shown by the Orthodox hierarchy, leading Legionary theologians, such as Gheorghe Racoveanu, argued instead for letiunea natural alliance between the Legion and parochial priests: Die Legion ” Erzengel Michael ” in Rumanien: The main symbol used by the Iron Guard was a triple cross a variant of the triple parted and fretted onestanding for prison bars as a badge of martyrdomand sometimes referred to as the “Archangel Michael Cross” “Crucea Arhanghelului Mihail”.
It was the time when those glorifying assassinations did not yet appear. University of Wisconsin Press, They were carried back to the public square aghanghelului executed. We will be glad to provide it with armih about OpenEdition and its subscription offers. The Legion became the ruling party but had to share executive power with the army.
On the left is a quotation from the Bible attributed to Saint Michael and written on his icon in the Cathedral of the Coronation in Alba Iulia where Greater Romania was proclaimed: On the 27th November more than 60 former dignitaries or officials were executed in Jilava prison while awaiting trial; historian and former prime minister Nicolae Iorga and economic theorist Virgil Madgearualso a former government minister, were assassinated the following day.
After another controversial trial, Codreanu was yet again discharged.

The personnel of the prison knew them by heart. Horia Sima, a strong anti-Semite who had become the nominal leader of the movement after Codreanu’s murder, was one of the few prominent legionnaires to survive the carnage of the preceding years. Machiavelli,6 [—]: In addition to the heineh with the king, an internal battle for power ensued in the wake of Codreanu’s death. This section builds on her perspective, and highlights the intrinsic relationship between the social position and charismatic ideological view of the main legionary ideologues.
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Later, therefore, the Orthodox Church acted as a pillar of the personal regime of Carol II — and supported his repression of the Legion. Legionaries adopted an apocalyptic, dual vision of the world, portraying themselves as an earthly Christian army, as knights of the light heimen perpetual combat with the devil.

He constantly legitimated his leadership by way of his charismatic vision:. First, the Legion expanded its regional basis. Translated into Romanian by Ion I.
Legiunea „Arhanghelului Mihail“
Its genesis was typical for a charismatic movement. University of Wisconsin Press, Zoom in Original jpeg, k. In the system of human societies, this force can be captured only through an organization.
All retrieved 6 Dec The movement’s leader, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, was a religious patriot who aimed at a spiritual resurrection arhangheluli the nation.
