THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT IN ROMANIA – BETWEEN PROPAGANDA AND ACTION IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD
THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT IN ROMANIA – BETWEEN PROPAGANDA AND ACTION IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD

Summary/Abstract: The Communist Party of Romania (PCR) appeared in the tumult resulting from the end of the First World War. Since its birth it became a branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which was the engine of the Communist International. Thus, the party leaders closely followed the Comintern s instructions. Soviet control over the party was exercised mainly through the allogeneous population that represented the majority within the party, and whose members held almost all important functions of the communist political organization. Being outlawed, PCR was forced to carry out its political and propagandistic activity through various political and civic shell organizations, the press and trade unions. Within the unions, PCR was involved in the creation of numerous labor disputes. Through short-lived political organizations, it also participated in several election campaigns for local and parliamentary elections. Due to the anti-national policy, it failed to impose itself on the Romanian political scene, but it contributed to some extent to achieve its goal, namely the agitation of the poor population dissatisfied with the existing socio-economic conditions.

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