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Partidul Social Democrat Român versus monarhia autoritară
The Romanian Social Democratic Party versus the authoritarian monarchy

Author(s): Florin Grecu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fundaţia »Societatea Civilă« (FSC)
Keywords: Social-democracy; collaboration; workers/employers; syndicate; authoritarian monarchy

Summary/Abstract: The article approaches the Romanian social-democratic collaboration during 1938-1940 with the authoritarian monarch regime. Even though the party leaders had diverging political views, regards to the acceptance or the non-acceptance of the authoritarian regime, the influential PSDR members held leading positions within the single party and the corporate parliament and within the union structures. The positions were offered by the regime, so that the union leaders would stop instigating workers to go on strike, and to accept the governmental policies. The freedom of speech and the political actions were ceded to the monarch, who governed at the place of the political parties and he controlled the unions, by using the guilds.

  • Issue Year: XXII/2014
  • Issue No: 179/3
  • Page Range: 76-86
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Romanian