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Ultimul mare crivăț cominternist de după 23 august 1944
The Last Major Comintemist Northerly Wind after August 23, 1944

Author(s): Marin C. Stănescu
Subject(s): Economic history, Political history, Social history, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: 1958; Romania; Workers party; communism;

Summary/Abstract: The June 9-13, 1958 plenum of the Central Committee of the Romanian Workers Party saw the purge from the party of the last major group of opponents, made up of second-tier apparatchiks that shared the same trait, i.e. they were former underground militants. The plenum was followed by a huge wave of purges, which Marin C. Stanescu witnessed while a young research scholar at the History Institute of the RWP, one of the worst hit institutions.

  • Issue Year: IX/2001
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 230-232
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: Romanian