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Relaţiile româno-sovietice în preajma Revoluţiei din Decembrie 1989. Scurtă problematizare
Some Questions on Romanian-Soviet Relations on the Eve of the Revolution of December 1989

Author(s): Alexandru-Murad Mironov
Subject(s): History, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: Cold War; Socialist camp; Romanian Revolution of December 1989; Nicolae Ceauşescu; Mikhail Gorbachev; Perestroika;

Summary/Abstract: Romania’s foreign policy in the last years of the Communist regime was characterized by improvisation, lack of vision and an unnecessary effort to safeguard the personal position of its leader, influenced by the international isolation in which it plunged. The Romanian-Soviet relation was rather not difficult, but it was dominated by disagreements between Nicolae Ceauşescu and Mikhail Gorbachev. The Romanian president showed signs of obvious lack of realism, while the Soviet leader publicly despise his counterpart’s methods

  • Issue Year: XXVII/2019
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 181-187
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian