Moştenirea Cominternului.Comuniştii români şi unitatea mişcării comuniste internaţionale, 1967-1969, I
The Comintern's Legacy. The Romanian Communists and the unity of World Communist Movement, 1967-1969

Summary/Abstract: During the 1960s and 1970s, Romania’s foreign policy demonstrated a high degree of “autonomy and ideological non-conformism”, in Ghiţă Ionescu’s terms. Nicolae Ceauşescu’s spectacular initiatives and the courage of his opposition to the Soviet Union had, for many years, occupied the front page of foreign newspapers. The fundamental question to which this article answers is if, beyond economical and political rationalities, Romania’s dissidence in the Communist bloc also had an ideological component. This article proves that Romania’s autonomy in foreign policy was justified and explained to Moscow through ideological arguments, inspired by the Yugoslav (Titoist) critique of the USSR, taking advantage of the Sino-Soviet split. The Romanian Communist Party relied on Khrushchev’s rhetoric, aimed at reforming Moscow’s relations with the satellite parties, in order to support equality among Communist parties and a national way towards Socialism. The nature of this argumentation consisted in using a Titoist approach built on Khrushchev’s arguments.

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