Restabilirea controlului. Conferința națională a P.C.R., decembrie 1967
Regaining the Control. National Party Conference, December 1967

Summary/Abstract: This article belongs with the set of documents originating in the archives of Radio Free Europe and currently in the custody of the Open Society Archives in Budapest. The National Party Conference held on December 6-8 set the stage for an unprecedented concentration of power resulting in a fusion of Party and government (or state) positions at various levels - and for a considerable consolidation of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s political authority. The “collective leadership”, established after the death of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, slowly became an illusion, as Ceaușescu’s policy of increasing the control over the main institutions and offices advance, as the “old guard” is pushed away.

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