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THE ROMANIAN COMMUNIST PARTY
(1948 - 1989)
FORBIDDING THE DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL PARTIES
• 1947: THE NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY AND THE NATIONAL CITIZEN PARTY ARE OUTLAWED;
• FEBRUARY 1948: THE COMMUNIST PARTY MERGES WITH THE DEMOCRAT SOCIAL PARTY;
• THE ROMANIAN WORKERS’ PARTY (AS A RESULT OF THE FUSION OF THE LEFTIST PARTIES) BECOMES THE ONLY POLITICAL FORCE OF ROMANIA;
• GHEORGHE GHEORGHIU-DEJ:
PARTY LEADER.
THE POLITICAL LEADERS
EMIL BODNĂRAŞ
TEOHARI GEORGESCU ANA PAUKER
GHEORGHE GHEORGHIU-DEJ
LUCREŢIU PĂTRĂŞCANU
VASILE LUCA
CONTROL OF THE R.W.P. (Romanian
Workers Party)• THE SOCIETY KEY INSTITUTIONS;
• POLITICAL;
• ECONOMIC;
• SOCIAL;
• CULTURAL.
•USE OF VIOLENCE;•CREATION OF NOMENCLATURE;•INCREASING NUMBER OF THE PARTY MEMBERS.
THE MEANS USED BY THE R.W.P.
THE SOVIET MODEL
1948 – 1959: SOVIET INSPIRATION ON:•THE POLITICAL MESSAGE,•THE ACTING WAY FOR CONSOLIDATING POWER
CARRYING-OFF FROM MOSCOW. THE ROMANIAN NATIONAL COMMUNISM
• 1958: WITHDRAWAL OF THE SOVIET TROOPS OFF THE ROMANIAN TERRITORY;
• 1964: “THE DECLARATION OF APRIL” THE R.W.P. INDEPENEDENCE OF MOSCOW (SUPPORT FROM POPULATION OF THE PARTY LEADERS);
• REJECTION OF THE “VALEV PLAN”.
THE IXTH CONGRESS OF THE R.C.P.
19TH – 24TH JULY 1965
NICOLAE CEAUŞESCU BECOMES SECRETARY
GENERAL OF THE PARTY
THE PARTY NAME IS AGAINTHE R.C.P.
THE R.C.P. REMAINS THE ONLY LEADING FORCE IN THE SOCIETY
THE STATE ANTHEM : THREE COLOURS
1977 – 1989
THE CHANGE
•LIBERTY OF EXPRESSION;
•DENUNCIATION OF STALIN-LIKE PRACTICES
DURING GHEORGHE GHEORGHIU-DEJ;
•LIBERALIZATION OF ECONOMY.
SEVERAL CULTURAL PERSONALITIES SUBSCRIBE TO THE PARTY
NEOSTALINISM
1971: NICOLAE CEAUŞESCU’S
VISIT TO CHINA AND NORTH
KOREA
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ASIAN-LIKE COMMUNISM IN
ROMANIA
A CLAN-LIKE R.C.P.,THE CULT OF PERSONALITY