The crucial 1974th: Ceaușescu's bet on the Third World in the Soviet diplomats’ information and assessments
The crucial 1974th: Ceaușescu’s bet on the Third World in the Soviet diplomats’ information and assessments

Summary/Abstract: The author focused his research on the assessments made by the Soviet diplomatic representatives in Bucharest of Romania’s foreign and trade policy towards the Third World and national liberation movements in 1974, when the final cementing of N. Ceaușescu’s autocracy took place. The latter’s desire to use ideological and political postulates in order to implement unrealistic plans for the country’s economic development and his own positions in the international arena was painfully perceived by the Soviet side, which saw this as a threat to the Eastern Bloc and its policies in the Third World. Particular importance in obtaining information by the Soviet diplomats was their close cooperation with diplomats of the member countries of the Warsaw Pact and CMEA and their joint consultations on wide range of the “Romanian agenda”.

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