[1][2] The first issue of Cuvântul magazine, originally a weekly, saw print in January 1990, and its first editorial staff comprised Morar, Lorin Vasilovici and Florin Pașnicu; since the twin issue 8-9/1990, they were replaced with Țeposu (as director), Buduca (editor in chief) and Dumitru Stan (editorial director, later replaced by George Țara).
[3] In 2007, the magazine was published by the trio of Răzvan Țupa, Cosmin Perța and Teodor Dună, during which time its format grew to 48 pages.
[5] Beginning with issues 8-9/2008, Cuvântul inaugurated a third series,[1] with Paul Cernat as editor in chief and the new subtitle Revistă de sinteză și orientare ("A Magazine of Synthesis and Orientation").
[6] The change also brought a new conference cycle, which focused on the historical development of Romanian culture within its Central and Eastern European context, with such themes as the cultural history of Greater Romania, the regional spread of modernism, the characteristics of popular history in European countries, or the interwar intellectuals' support for eugenics and racism.
At the time, other press venues published revelations that Antohi had falsified some of his academic credentials, and that he had been, in his youth, an informer of the communist secret police (the Securitate).