The ‘patriotic guards’ and the ‘popular war doctrine’. On the ideological scaffolding of Socialist Romania’s security policy
The ‘patriotic guards’ and the ‘popular war doctrine’. On the ideological scaffolding of Socialist Romania’s security policy

Summary/Abstract: „Prague spring”, or, in other words, Moscow’s intolerance for political and economical reforms challenging the communist monopoly in the „brotherly countries”, posed a considerable influence on the security policy of socialist Romania. It even led to major reinterpretations and reorganizations of the existent strategic conceptions. Accordingly, the „popular guards” were once again put in place, and the doctrine of „popular war” came to light. The constitutive extent in which these concepts were penetrated by the romantic-Leninist ideology constitutes the object of the present paper.

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