Romanian Communists in the Comintern Archive: Vanda Nicolski and the Romanian emigration in U.S.S.R. during the Great Terror, 1936-1938, II Cover Image
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Comuniști din România în arhiva Cominternului: Vanda Nicolski și emigrația românească din U.R.S.S. în timpul Marii Terori, 1936-1938, III
Romanian Communists in the Comintern Archive: Vanda Nicolski and the Romanian emigration in U.S.S.R. during the Great Terror, 1936-1938, II

Author(s): Cristina Diac
Subject(s): History, Recent History (1900 till today), Special Historiographies:, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), History of Communism
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: Great Purges; Moscow Show Trials; Popular Front; Marcel Pauker; Boris Ștefanov;

Summary/Abstract: In order to better introduce the document, I’ve chosen to publish, I largely explained the broader context which encompass the moment when it was written. Vanda Nicolski, a major leader of the Communist Party of Romania, a member of the Central Committee and of the Political Bureau during the ‘30s, wrote a large report in August 1938, when she was in Moscow. Clearly, her confession, written during the Great Terror, wasn’t an innocent piece of evidence scrutinizing the history of the C.P.o.R. per se, but it was meant to incriminate as many professional revolutionaries as possible. I tried to explain what stood behind of her statement. The contents exposed by Vanda Nicolski refers mostly to the complex and fluid relationships established into the inner circle of Party’s leaders and details what steps the C.P.o.R. took in order to meet the Comintern’s expectations during Popular Front era.

  • Issue Year: XXV/2017
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 235-249
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Romanian