Activitatea lectorilor CC ai PCR ca „diplomați” ai partidului
The activity of lecturers of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party as „diplomats” of the Party

Summary/Abstract: One of the actors of the propaganda system in communist Romania was the lecturer. The lecturers had two main responsibilities: to verify the activity of propaganda departments subordinated to the Central Committee and to disseminate the external propaganda.External propaganda set new goals for itself with the reorientation of the regime from Bucharest towards the West. Thus, starting with the end of the 1960s, at the CC level there were exchanges of lecturers between the states of the communist bloc and other countries. In these exchanges the aims of the lecturers were to obtain information from foreign countries, to test the perceptions and moods about Romania, and to anticipate possible foreign policy actions. The visits were, generally, 10 days long, and the program was painstakingly organised by the Propaganda and Agitation Section and the External Relations Section of the Central Committee.Considering the topics, how the lecturers were trained and how the visits were organized, we could say that the responsibility of the lectures resembled, at this point, that of a diplomat. Thus, in this study we will analyse two such visits, one made a Romanian lecturer in the Popular Republic of Poland and the other made by a PMSU lecturer in Romania, to observe and understand the purposes of these visits, how were they organised, what kind of information used to attract the lecturers’ attention and what were the responsibilities of the lecturers in that context.

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