THE ROMANIAN COMMUNIST PARTY

(1948 - 1989)

FORBIDDING THE DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL PARTIES

• 1947: THE NATIONAL LIBERAL PARTY AND THE NATIONAL CITIZEN PARTY ARE OUTLAWED;

• FEBRUARY 1948: THE COMMUNIST PARTY MERGES WITH THE DEMOCRAT SOCIAL PARTY;

• THE ROMANIAN WORKERS’ PARTY (AS A RESULT OF THE FUSION OF THE LEFTIST PARTIES) BECOMES THE ONLY POLITICAL FORCE OF ROMANIA;

• GHEORGHE GHEORGHIU-DEJ:

PARTY LEADER.

THE POLITICAL LEADERS

EMIL BODNĂRAŞ

TEOHARI GEORGESCU ANA PAUKER

GHEORGHE GHEORGHIU-DEJ

LUCREŢIU PĂTRĂŞCANU

VASILE LUCA

CONTROL OF THE R.W.P. (Romanian

Workers Party)• THE SOCIETY KEY INSTITUTIONS;

• POLITICAL;

• ECONOMIC;

• SOCIAL;

• CULTURAL.

•USE OF VIOLENCE;•CREATION OF NOMENCLATURE;•INCREASING NUMBER OF THE PARTY MEMBERS.

THE MEANS USED BY THE R.W.P.

THE SOVIET MODEL

1948 – 1959: SOVIET INSPIRATION ON:•THE POLITICAL MESSAGE,•THE ACTING WAY FOR CONSOLIDATING POWER

CARRYING-OFF FROM MOSCOW. THE ROMANIAN NATIONAL COMMUNISM

• 1958: WITHDRAWAL OF THE SOVIET TROOPS OFF THE ROMANIAN TERRITORY;

• 1964: “THE DECLARATION OF APRIL” THE R.W.P. INDEPENEDENCE OF MOSCOW (SUPPORT FROM POPULATION OF THE PARTY LEADERS);

• REJECTION OF THE “VALEV PLAN”.

THE IXTH CONGRESS OF THE R.C.P.

19TH – 24TH JULY 1965

NICOLAE CEAUŞESCU BECOMES SECRETARY

GENERAL OF THE PARTY

THE PARTY NAME IS AGAINTHE R.C.P.

THE R.C.P. REMAINS THE ONLY LEADING FORCE IN THE SOCIETY

THE STATE ANTHEM : THREE COLOURS

1977 – 1989

THE CHANGE

•LIBERTY OF EXPRESSION;

•DENUNCIATION OF STALIN-LIKE PRACTICES

DURING GHEORGHE GHEORGHIU-DEJ;

•LIBERALIZATION OF ECONOMY.

SEVERAL CULTURAL PERSONALITIES SUBSCRIBE TO THE PARTY

NEOSTALINISM

1971: NICOLAE CEAUŞESCU’S

VISIT TO CHINA AND NORTH

KOREA

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ASIAN-LIKE COMMUNISM IN

ROMANIA

A CLAN-LIKE R.C.P.,THE CULT OF PERSONALITY