Stalinism for All Seasons by Vladimir Tismăneanu

See also Vladimir Tismăneanu, Arheologia terorii (Bucharest, 1992). I, Trădarea intelectualilor (Sibiu, 1992), vol. On the impact of Sovietisation upon Romanian culture in the late forties and the fifties see Marin Niţescu, Sub zodia proletcultismului (Bucharest, 1995)Īnd Ana Selejan, România în timpul primului război cultural (1944–1948), vol. Michael Montias, Economic Development in Communist Rumania (Cambridge, Mass., 1967). A first-hand account of the celebrations within the Soviet B loc can be found in the Cominform’s newspaper, Pentru o pace trainică, pentru democraţie populară, nos 9 December 1949, 16 December 1949, 21 December, 30 December 1949. Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War (Princeton, NJ, 2000) pp. For a comparative analysis of Stalin’s 70th birthday celebrations in the other socialist countries see Anders Aman, Architecture and Ideology in Eastern Europe during Stalin Era: An Aspect of Cold War History (Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1992) p. Vladimir Tismăneanu, Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political Histoly of Romanian Communism (Berkeley, Cal., 2003), pp. Stelian Tănase, Elite şi societate, Guvernarea Gheorghiu-Dej 1948–1965 (Bucharest, 1998), pp. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.ĭennis Deletant, Teroarea comunistă în România, Gheorghiu-Dej şi statul poliţienesc, 1948–1965 (Iaşi, 2001), pp. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Furthermore, it will explore the strategies adopted by Gheorghiu-Dej to restrain the consequences of the speech and its employment by his opponents. 2 This chapter focuses primarily on the investigation of the accusations regarding strictly the ‘personality cult’.

1 Stelian Tănase and Vladimir Tismăneanu approach the events of 1956 in terms of individual and interest group conflicts within the party. Dennis Deletant analyses it as part of a larger investigation of the role played by the political police during the Gheorghiu-Dej regime, as one of the main charges lodged against him was of the use of terror and intimidation prior to 1956. This specific episode has been examined by various scholars. It attempts to identify the strategies adopted by the Romanian leadership to diminish its influence and to get rid of those who, using this opportunity, attacked the position of the general secretary of the Romanian Workers’ Party (RWP), Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. This chapter deals with the impact of Khrushchev’s speech in Romania. The influence of those events was felt differently in the countries of the Soviet Bloc and local leaders adopted various tactics in their attempts to contain the challenge posed to the status quo by those proceedings. In 1956 Khrushchev’s ‘Secret Speech’, the Polish unrest and the Hungarian uprising created the greatest unrest in Eastern Europe since the establishment of communism.

Stalinism for All Seasons by Vladimir Tismăneanu