Rezidenţii O.G.P.U./N.K.V.D. din România anilor 1930 Studii de caz: Valeriu Bucicov, Ion Vidraşcu, Petre Goncearuc, Vasile Posteucă, Serghie Nicolau, IV
OGPU/NKVD Residents in Romania of the 1930s. Case studies: Valeriu Bucicov, Ion Vidraşcu, Petre Goncearuc, Vasile Posteucă, and Serghie Nicolau, IV

Summary/Abstract: Based on a thorough research in different Romanian archives, leading to the discovery of previously unknown documents, this study presents the personal and professional biographies of five communists from Bessarabia acting as illegal residents for the Soviet intelligence, revealing the depth of the Soviet espionage penetration into the Eastern Romanian territory, military and civilian structures.The study covers both the data-gathering activity of the five, before the war, and their spectacular trajectories, as leaders of the new regime, in the first years after the war. Their extraordinary political evolution – but also very similar among the chosen group – is a model story about the human resources the Communists relied on before and during WWII and the troubled relationship between the „old guard” of the „Moscovites” and the thirst for power of the ethnically Romanian new leaders.

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