Tot mai departe de Moscova Politica externă a regimului Ceaușescu 1965-1967
Away from Moscow. The foreign policy of the Ceaușescu regime, 1965-1967

Summary/Abstract: When Ceaușescu came to power, the Romanian communist regime’s distancing from the “big brother” in the East- a move initiated in the early 60s by the then first secretary of the communist party, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej - became increasingly obvious, at least at a declarative level. The new leader in Romania was careful enough to gradually dissociate from everything that could have identified him with the old party, which Romanian public opinion perceived exclusively as an offshoot of the Soviet authorities. Aware of its chronic lack of legitimacy, the socialist regime began playing more and more insistently on the national sentiment of the population, hoping for reconciliation with the society. Nothing could be more popular in the time’s Romania than anti-Soviet rhetoric. This did not go unnoticed abroad either, as attested also by the two analyses presented in this issue of Totalitarianism Archives, made by J.F. Brown and A. Ross Johnson from Radio Free Europe Research, the documentation section of Radio Free Europe. The texts in this issue come from the Open Society Archives in Budapest.

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