ITALY AND THE DE-SATELLIZATION OF COMMUNIST ROMANIA (1964-1975)
ITALY AND THE DE-SATELLIZATION OF COMMUNIST ROMANIA (1964-1975)

Author(s): Federico Imperato
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Special Historiographies:, History of Communism
Published by: Editura Universităţii Vasile Goldiş
Keywords: Republican Italy; Communist Romania; Détente; People’s Republics; De-Stalinization; Warsaw Pact; Stalinism; Cult of Personality;
Summary/Abstract: This paper analyzes the relations between Italy and Romania during the 1960s and 1970s in light of two fundamental elements: the phase of détente that characterized the international system and the important changes in internal politics in Rome and Bucharest. In Italy, the launch of the centre-left formula brought the Italian Socialist Party to the government in a parliamentary coalition with the Christian Democrats, the Republican Party, and the Social Democratic Party. In Romania, however, the last years of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej’s power and the succession of Nicolae Ceauşescu were characterized by a progressive autonomy from the Soviet Union, taking the form of real de-satellization from Moscow and the Warsaw Pact.

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