ROMANIA IN THE 1970S: THE DETACHMENT FROM MOSCOW AND OPENNESS TOWARDS THE EEC. ASIAN ALTERNATIVES?
ROMANIA IN THE 1970S: THE DETACHMENT FROM MOSCOW AND OPENNESS TOWARDS THE EEC. ASIAN ALTERNATIVES?

Summary/Abstract: Amid the economic setbacks inherited from the interwar period, Romania’s inclusion into the Soviet Bloc triggered major transformations within its economy, marred bywar reparations and forced industrialisation, as it has been investigated through qualitativeanalyses of literature and primary documents. The economic break-up from the URSSmarked the evolutions of Romania in the 1960s and enabled it to seek some degree ofcloseness to China and, on the other hand, to the West, whilst building a particular model ofnationalist communism. The fluctuating relations with Far-East countries failed to preventthe collapse of a regime that became obsolete after the hardships of the 1970s and 1980s.

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