Ana Pauker şi religia politică stalinistă
Ana Pauker and the Stalinist political religion

Summary/Abstract: Thanks to the Comintern’s propaganda machine, Ana Pauker’s name became an international symbol of opposition to fascism. Until 1952 Ana Pauker – Passionaria of the Balkans, as she was called – played a paramount role in the history of Romanian communism. Ana Pauker’s downfall did not occur merely, or even primarily, because of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej’s skillful maneuvering – as some Romanian novels published in the 1980s would have us believe – but foremost because of Joseph Stalin’s decision to initiate a major political purge in Romania. Ana Pauker embraced until the end the objectives of Stalinism as Political Religion.

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