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Între ideologie şi realitate. O evaluare a Ambasadei sovietice de la Bucureşti despre situaţia din Romania, iunie 1989
Between ideology and reality. A Soviet Embassy in Bucharest assessment on the situation in Romania, June 1989

Author(s): Vasile Buga
Subject(s): History, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: Communism; Romania; Nicolae Ceauşescu; Mikhail Gorbachev; perestroika;

Summary/Abstract: This article brings to attention a document drafted by two diplomats of the Soviet Embassy in Bucharest, which contains a synthetic analysis on how Romania reacted on the middle of 1989 to the reevaluation by Gorbachev of the core concepts of Socialism. The specificities of the Romanian domestic policy and how this differentiated her from its Communist allies are emphasized. The authors of the document conclude that a profound reform in Romania would not be possible unless Ceauşescu’s removal from power.

  • Issue Year: XXVI/2018
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 244-255
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian