Totalitarianism Archives
Review of the National Institute of the Study of Totalitarianism
Volume XXVII, Number 104-105, 3-4/2019
EDITORIAL
RADU CIUCEANU, History as Ballast, LII. Looking back in anger……………………………………5
STUDIES
FLORIN ABRAHAM, The Trianon Treaty and revisionist political mythology. Traditional and recent approaches………………………………………………………………………………………………….9
A.S. STEPANOV, The reaction of Soviet citizens to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the “Liberation campaign in Western Belarus and Ukraine” of 1939 according to the documents of the NKVD of the USSR……………………………………………………………………………………………………….40
FLORI BĂLĂNESCU, The opponent Paul Goma – from the childhood traumas to the resentments of the young man, 1944-1956………………………………………………………………………………..53
CONSTANTIN BUCHET, Justinian, the patriarch of Romanian Orthodox Church, and politics in Romania, 1945–1950. Ecclesiastical diplomacy and religious geopolitics................................................69
GÁBOR CSIKÓS, Experiences of Communist Emancipation Projects in Two Hungarian Villages, 1945-1970…………………………………………………………………………………………………..77
VASILE BUGA, The politics of pragmatism. Romania and CMEA during Ceauşescu’s regime, 1965-1989, I………………………………………………………………………………………………………92
ARTYOM A. ULUNYAN, The “Romanian maverick” through the Dutch intelligence eyes (mid ’60s – early ’80s)………………………………………………………………………………………………….110
DANIEL FILIP, General’ Jaruzelski visit in Romania, 1982. Significance and outcomes....................127
ELENA NEGRU, GHEORGHE NEGRU, Mikhail Gorbachev, Perestroika, and the Bessarabian Question, 1986-1989.................................................................................................................................................................................142
NICOLETA ŞERBAN, A model of European mobilization: "Opération Villages Roumains" and
ALEXANDRU-MURAD MIRONOV, Some Questions on Romanian-Soviet Relations on the Eve of the Revolution of December 1989.....................................................................................................................181
SILVIU MILOIU, „The Singing Revolution”: The formation of the counter-elites during the process of Estonia's separation from the USSR..........................................................................................................188
ADRIAN POP, The impact of the legitimacy crisis and the “Gorbachev factor” upon the breakdown of the Soviet empire and the end of the Cold War…………………………………………………………..207
DRAGOŞ PETRESCU, Romania, Thirty Years After: The Bloody Revolution of 1989 and the Refusal of the Populist Consensus..........................................................................................................................229
CRISTINA PETRESCU, The Totalitarian Origin of an Anti-Totalitarian Narrative. Past and Present Accounts on Communism in Romania.....................................................................................................252
DOCUMENTS
DAN CĂTĂNUŞ, The end of Pătrăşcanu’s case. Between domestic interests and Moscow’s „advice”, 1952-1954………………………………………………………………………………………………….272
ANA-MARIA CĂTĂNUŞ, The Story of the recruitment by the C.I.A. of a Romanian diplomat in Washington: Mircea Răceanu, 1974-1975.................................................................................................296
TESTIMONIES
PUICA BUHOCI, Pieces of the reeducation process: Testimonies and confessions…………………..325
BIOGRAPHIES
COSMIN BUDEANCĂ, Iosif Capotă (1912-1958)……………………………………………………..338
MIHAI BURCEA, Mugur Călinescu (1965-1985)..................................................................................341
OCTAVIANA JIANU, Constantin Noica (1909-1987)............................................................................344
BOOK REVIEWS
OCTAVIAN ROSKE, Cold War Crisis: an American Perspective; HEORGHE ONIŞORU, Another story of the Cold War: The Caraman Case;DAN CĂTĂNUŞ, SOE, MI6 and British interests in Romania......................................................................................................................................................349
N.I.S.T. AGENDA.......................................................................................................................................358
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Totalitarianism Archives
Review of the National Institute of the Study of Totalitarianism
Volume XXVII, Number 102-103, 1-2/2019
EDITORIAL
RADU CIUCEANU, History as Ballast, LI. Browsing through history after 100 years…………………5
STUDIES
GHEORGHE COJOCARU, The SSR Bessarabia’ train government: a failed attempt to export the Bolshevik revolution, May 1919…………………………………………………………………………..10
CONSTANTIN CORNEANU, Political and Diplomatic Efforts for the Defending of Greater Romania, 1918-1940, II...............................................................................................................................22
FLORIAN TĂNĂSESCU, NICOLAE TĂNĂSESCU, Comintern - the spearhead of Soviet policy against Greater Romania, 1919-1943..........................................................................................................38
LUIZA REVYAKINA, The Comintern and Bulgaria, 1919-1943............................................................57
ALEKSANDR SHUBIN, The turn of the Comintern to the strategy of the Popular Front in 1933-1935...............................................................................................................................................................75
FLORIN-RĂZVAN MIHAI, The Ukrainian integral nationalism in Romania: ideology, organization and methods of propaganda, 1934-1938………………………………………………………………….90
GHEORGHE ONIŞORU, Preludes to 23rd of August, 1944. The King, Iuliu Maniu, and the Communist Party.......................................................................................................................................111
FLORIN ŞANDRU, Soldiers’ Testimonies about their participation in the coup of 23rd of August, 1944.............................................................................................................................................................131
ALEKSANDR STYKALIN, The Intervention of 5 countries – members of the Warsaw Treaty Organization in Czechoslovakia in August 1968 and the crisis in Soviet-Romanian relations..............139
SLAVOMÍR MICHÁLEK, August 68. The Invasion of Czechoslovakia and the United Nations Reaction…………………………………………………………………………………………………156
DARIUSZ MAGIER, Training of local communist cadres in Poland in 1975-1990. An analysis based on the archives of the Bialskopodlaski province………………………………………………………..170
DOCUMENTS
ALEXANDRU-MURAD MIRONOV, A Succesful Business Model: The Romanian Communist Party as Capitalist Shareholder, March 1948.....................................................................................................181
DAN CĂTĂNUŞ, The Pătrăşcanu Case and the late Stalinism's inquiries. A November 1952 key-document....................................................................................................................................................190
MIRCEA-DOREL SUCIU, "The French Connection" and the Beginnings of the Commercial Agency of the Romanian People's Republic in Frankfurt on Main.......................................................................221
LUCICA IORGA, „Our friendship is timeless and unbreakable”. The Soviet transcript of the talks between Emil Bodnăraș and Soviet leaders in Moscow on 10 May 1965.................................................239
BIOGRAPHIES
FLORIN ABRAHAM, Ioana Berindei (1922-2008)…………………………………………………… 255
CIPRIAN BĂLĂBAN, Eugen Bodor (1902-1983)………………………………………………………257
ANDREA DOBEŞ, Ilie Lazăr (1895-1976)............................................................................................... 260
CRISTINA ROMAN, Lothar Rădăceanu (1899-1955)............................................................................264
BOOK REVIEWS
OCTAVIAN ROSKE, Power plays: The Carter Administration and the relation with the Soviet Union;
FLORIN-RĂZVAN MIHAI, The memoirs of Ernst Röhm, Chief of Staff of the Sturmabteilung.............................................................................................................................................269
N.I.S.T. AGENDA.......................................................................................................................................280
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Totalitarianism Archives
Review of the National Institute of the Study of Totalitarianism
Volume XXVI, Number 100-101, 3-4/2018
EDITORIAL
RADU CIUCEANU, History as Ballast, L. A Happy Ending: December 1, 1918....................................6
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STUDIES
ANCA IRINA IONESCU, The Contribution of Tomáš G. Masaryk to the Founding of the Czechoslovak Republic, 1914-1918......................................................................................................................................12
CONSTANTIN BUCHET, Romanian Volunteers in the Great War: „The First Alba-Iulia”..............29
OLGA ZASLAVSKAYA, 1918 in the Fate of Eastern Europe’s “Lost Generation”: Austro-Hungarian Prisoners of War in Siberia and the Far East……………………………………………………………36
MARCELA SĂLĂGEAN, From Greater Romania to Unified Romania. The Integration Process: Territories, Population, Infrastructure, Economy………………………………………………………..62
CONSTANTIN CORNEANU, Political and Diplomatic Efforts for the Defending of Greater Romania, 1918-1940, I..........................................................................................................................78
CONSTANTIN GEAMBAŞU, The Polish-Soviet War and Its Meanings in the Evolution of Interwar Poland............................................................................................................................................................90
ELENA CAZACU, The evacuation of Bukovina in spring 1944: Operation 1111 B………………….98
Keywords: Operation 1111 B, evacuation plan of Bukovina, Romanian administration, instructions for evacuation.
KRZYSZTOF GAJEWSKI, A New Tradition. Construction of Cultural Identity of Farmers in „Regained Territories” of Poland after the World War II in the Light of Their Letters to Authorities………………………………………………………………………………………………..108
CSIKÓS GÁBOR, Rumors for interpreting and foreseeing. Case study on a Hungarian micro region: Jászság, 1948-1955………………………………………………………………………………………123
ROMINA SURUGIU, ADRIANA ŞTEFĂNEL, MĂDĂLINA BĂLĂŞESCU, ALEXANDRU MATEI, VYARA ANGELOVA, Cultural Core in Television Programming in Romania and Bulgaria, 1963-1983..............................................................................................................................................................134
FLORIAN TĂNĂSESCU, From social-democracy to communism. New accounts on Ștefan Voitec’s biography (1900-1984), I............................................................................................................................148
CRISTINA PETRESCU, DRAGOŞ PETRESCU, Nation, Nationalism and Nation-Building in Romania: The Union of 1918, National Identity and Legitimizing Discourses under Communism, 1945–1989………………………………………………………………………………………………………166
FLORIN ABRAHAM, The "Greater Romania" Project after 1989: nostalgia, realities, perspectives.................................................................................................................................................187
DOCUMENTS
VASILE BUGA, Did Romania have the initiative of establishing Comecon? An unpublished letter from December 1948...........................................................................................................................................210
MIHAI BURCEA, Excerpts from the biography of a penitentiary commander: Nicolae Maromete, 1949-1955..................................................................................................................................................214
TESTIMONIES
RADU CIUCEANU, Recourse to memory. How a political party was buried?......................................232
POINTS OF VIEW
PUICA BUHOCI, Fragmentary from the laboratories of the reeducation.............................................242
BIOGRAPHIES
OCTAVIANA JIANU, Al.O. Teodoreanu (1894-1964)............................................................................246
CORNELIU BELDIMAN, Vasile Zorzor (1890-1952)…………………………………………………250
PUICA BUHOCI, Vintilă Vais (1921-1974).............................................................................................253
BOOK REVIEWS
FLORIN-RĂZVAN MIHAI, Excerpts from the diary of Nazi Ideologist Alfred Rosenberg; OCTAVIAN ROSKE, The United States and the Communist World: strategies and institutional options; DAN CĂTĂNUŞ, In the search of a history of the Securitate; ANA-MARIA CĂTĂNUŞ, Mihai Botez. Three crude portrait sketches; Octavian Roske, History fragments: an attempt of restoration.......... .........................................................................................................................................259
N.I.S.T. AGENDA.......................................................................................................................................278
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Totalitarianism Archives
Review of the National Institute of the Study of Totalitarianism
Volume XXVI, Number 98-99, 1-2/2018
EDITORIAL
RADU CIUCEANU, History as Ballast, XLIX. So we will remember... The Great Union of All Romanians!...................................................................................................................................................5
STUDIES
ACAD. FLORIN CONSTANTINIU, Christian Rakovski and the Theory of Bureaucratic Degeneration of Socialism in the USSR……………………………………………………………………………………9
ION CONSTANTIN, The Diplomatic Fight for the International Recognition of Greater Romania. The Problem of Bessarabia, 1918-1920……….…………………………………………………………..24
IOAN SCURTU, The First “Totalitarian One-Party” in Romania’s History - The Party of the Nation, 1940…………………………………………………………………………………………..……………47
LILIA CRUDU, The fate of Bessarabian Statesmen after 1940……………..…………………………54
MIHAI BURCEA, Romanian Antifascists in the French Resistance, 1939-1944, II..............................76
GHEORGHE ONIŞORU, A controversial decision: Constantin Argetoianu’s return to Romania, November 1946……………………………………………………………………………………………100
LEONID GHIBIANSKI, “… The meeting is convened at the request of the governments of the USSR and Romania”. How the COMECON was created..................................................................................109
DARIUSZ JAROSZ, Old Age and the Evolution of the Social Security System in Rural Poland in the 20th Century………………………………………………………………………………………………133
ADRIAN CONSTANTIN ROTAR, The Suppression of the Rural Social Elite. Dekulakization of the Villages in the Suceava Region, 1949-1962……………………………………………………………147
ALEKSANDR STYKALIN, The Trial of Imre Nagy in the context of the relations between the Soviet Union, Hungary and Yugoslavia, 1958......................................................................................................161
ARTYOM A. ULUNYAN, Secret but Obvious. Soviet-Romanian and Romanian-CMEA relations in the CIA economic intelligence analysis, the early 60s – mid-70s…………………………………………..177
KARINA PAULINA MARCZUK, A Century of Cooperation: Polish-Romanian bilateral relations, 1918-2018...................................................................................................................................................196
DOCUMENTS
CRISTINA DIAC, Romanian Communists in the Comintern Archive: Elena Filipovici, the Death of a professional revolutionary, 1934-1937, II………………………………………………………………199
DAN CĂTĂNUŞ, The Death of Stalin, the release of Ana Pauker and an enigmatic talk on 8 April 1953..............................................................................................................................................................225
VASILE BUGA, Between ideology and reality. A Soviet Embassy in Bucharest assessment on the situation in Romania, June 1989……………………………………….………………………………..244
BIOGRAPHIES
FLORI BĂLĂNESCU, Neculai (Nicolae) Popa (n. 21 iunie 1931)…………………………………..256
CORNELIU BELDIMAN, Gabriel Negrei (1872 – 1951)……………………………………………..259
MIHAI BURCEA, Josefina Nicolschi (1910-1992)…………………………………………………….261
OCTAVIANA JIANU, Marietta Sadova (1897-1981)…………………………………………………..265
BOOK REVIEWS
OCTAVIAN ROSKE, The Regan years and the end of the Cold War; GHEORGHE ONIŞORU, A failed love story: Romania and the Warsaw Treaty Organization.............................................................270
N.I.S.T. AGENDA.......................................................................................................................................278
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Totalitarianism Archives
Review of the National Institute of the Study of Totalitarianism
Volume XXV, Number 96-97, 3-4/2017
EDITORIAL
RADU CIUCEANU, History as Ballast, XLVIII. Justinian Marina, a Romanian Thomas Becket...........5
STUDIES
MIHAI BURCEA, Former International Brigades fighters in the French Resistance: The Romanian Contingent, 1939-1944, I..............................................................................................................................12
IULIAN WARTER, LIVIU WARTER, Uncovering the socio-economic issues beyond the Anti-Jewish Legislation in Romania: In the shadow of the swastika, 1933-1944.........................................................48
DAN CĂTĂNUŞ, The Case of Vasile Luca, the Samoilov Espionage Network and the State of Romanian Communists in SSSR, II: 1945-1954.........................................................................................................57
ALBINA F. NOSKOVA, Political Power and the Roman Catholic Church in Poland, 1944-1956, II....................................................................................................................................................................69
ANNA GLADYSHEVA, Khruschev’s economic reforms in the aftermath of the CPSU XXth Congress, 1956-1964......................................................................................................................................................93
ALINA ILINCA, LIVIU MARIUS BEJENARU, Exiles, Dissidents, Defectors. The Securitate Repressive Regime’s actions in external Romania, 1957-1989…………………………………………106
CRISTINA PETRESCU, The Goma Movement, Forty Years After: Controversies, Amnesia and (Mis)Canonization.....................................................................................................................................130
STEFANO BOTTONI, Between External Constraint and Internal Crackdown: Romania’s Non-Reaction to Soviet Perestroika.................................................................................................................152
FLORIN ABRAHAM, Justice system in communist Romania: between political control and autonomy, II................................................................................................................................................................172
EWELINA DRZEWIECKA, The Bulgarian Utopia: About Saints Cyril and Methodius during the Communist Period………………………………………………………………………………………197
PAWEŁ UKIELSKI, Settling Accounts with the Communist Past in Poland…………………..……207
CRISTINA DIAC, Romanian Communists in the Comintern Archive: Elena Filipovici, the Death of a professional revolutionary, 1934-1937…………………………………………………………………219
ANA-MARIA CĂTĂNUŞ, Nicolae Ceauşescu and Futures Studies in Romania, II: Alvin Toffler in Bucharest, 1976......................................................................................................................................240
VASILE BUGA, Romania seen from Moscow: Soviet documents drafted in March 1989...................253
TESTIMONIES
FLORIN-RĂZVAN MIHAI, The Nuclear Programme. The Unfulfilled Dream of Nicolae Ceauşescu..................................................................................................................................................266
BIOGRAPHIES
FLORI BĂLĂNESCU, Emil Căpraru (b. 1923)......................................................................................279
OCTAVIANA JIANU, Vladimir Streinu (1902-1970)..............................................................................284
ANTOANETA OLTEANU, V.M. Molotov - a First Rank Bolshevik...................................................288
BOOK REVIEWS
CRISTINA DIAC, Fellow travellers and professional revolutionaries; OCTAVIANA JIANU, An analytical perspective on interwar Balcan modernity; OCTAVIAN ROSKE, Communism in the public American speech. A book on the Republican Party...................................................................................300
N.I.S.T. AGENDA.......................................................................................................................................312
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Totalitarianism Archives
Review of the National Institute of the Study of Totalitarianism
Volume XXV, Number 94-95, 1-2/2017
EDITORIAL
RADU CIUCEANU, History as Ballast, XLVII. The victors’ train. The Bucharest Northern Railway Station. Thalassa!....................................................................................................................………………5
STUDIES
GHEORGHE COJOCARU, A Comintern Ideologic and Identity Diversion: the invention of „the Moldovan language”, 1924-1925..................................................................................................................11
FLORIN-RĂZVAN MIHAI, Communists and Socialists in the General Elections of Interwar Romania (1926-1933). A Comparative Analysis, II.....................................................................................................20
DIEGO GASPAR CELAYA, JULIÁN CASANOVA RUIZ, Exclusion and repression. Franco and the Spanish Dictatorship as Outcomes of the Civil War……………………………………………………..30
DAN CĂTĂNUŞ, The Case of Vasile Luca, the Samoilov Espionage Network and the State of Romanian Communists in USSR, I: 1940-1944.....................................................................................49
NICOLAE FUŞTEI, The situation of the Orthodox Church from the Moldavian SSR in 1940-1941....67
ALBINA F. NOSKOVA, Political Power and the Roman Catholic Church in Poland, 1944-1956, I.....74
BRÎNDUŞA COSTACHE, Post-War World II Monetary Reforms in Romania in the Context of Romanian-Soviet Relations, 1947-1952……………………………………………………………………86
CÉCILE VAISSIÉ, The Only Stalin Price of Literature in the Western World: André Stil, an « engineer of the souls » in France…………………………………………………………………………………104
RALUCA-NICOLETA SPIRIDON, LIVIU-MARIUS BEJENARU, Repression and information control in the period August 30th 1948 – March 14th 1956, II..................................................................126
AURELIA VASILE, The instigation to vigilance and to denunciation. Implementation of the central directives in the organization of the Soviet film festival in 1950, I…………………………………………..142
TATIANA VOLOKITINA, Destalinization „à la Bulgarian”. Tchervenkov-Zhivkov: the Struggle for Power, 1953-1956, II..................................................................................................................................157
KARINA PAULINA MARCZUK, The Origins of the Polish-German Reconciliation, 1965-1966….171
ARTYOM A. ULUNYAN, Before and After R. Nixon’s Visit to Romania. Flashpoints of the Romanian “Specific Course” as seen through American and Soviet Eyes................................................................181
LUMINIŢA BANU, FLORIAN BANU, The causes of the emigration of ethnic Germans from Romania reflected on the Security’s documents, III: 1977-1989……………………………………….200
CONSTANTIN HLIHOR, The Geopolitical Shock: the Soviet-American Relations and the Fall of Communism................................................................................................................................................214
DOCUMENTS
CRISTINA DIAC, Romanian Communists in the Comintern Archive: Vanda Nicolski and the Romanian emigration in U.S.S.R. during the Great Terror, 1936-1938, III............................................235
ANA-MARIA CĂTĂNUŞ, Nicolae Ceauşescu and Futures Studies in Romania, I: Johan Galtung in Bucharest, 1974..........................................................................................................................................250
BIOGRAPHIES
CRISTINA ROMAN, Silviu Brucan (1916-2006)....................................................................................263
DĂNUŢ DOBOŞ, Ion Parțac (1927-1996)................................................................................................269
POINTS OF VIEW
ALEXANDRU BUDIŞTEANU, The Eastern Border of Moldova – an Aria of Trouble and Conflict…………………………………………………………………………………………………….287
BOOK REVIEWS
VASILE BUGA, Moscow, the Balkans and the Mediterranean Sea after August 1968; OCTAVIAN ROSKE, Measuring power: a book on American presidency in the XX-th century; RADU BRUJA, Peregrinatio academica as method of disseminating ideologies; Cristina Diac, Interwar communism - the destiny of an insignificant communist militant..................................................................................271
N.I.S.T. AGENDA.......................................................................................................................................295
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Totalitarianism Archives
Review of the National Institute of the Study of Totalitarianism
Volume XXIV, Number 92-93, 3-4/2016
EDITORIAL
RADU CIUCEANU, History as a Ballast, XLVI. The Last Liberal of the Founders………………5
STUDIES
ALEXANDRU-CRISTIAN VOICU, The first communist under surveillance by the Siguranţa: Christian Rakovsky in the First World War (1914-1918)............................................................................8
FLORIN-RĂZVAN MIHAI, Communists and Socialists in the General Elections of Interwar Romania (1926-1933). A Comparative Analysis, I.....................................................................................................28
IOANA ELENA SECU, Russian Idea in the Soviet Foreign Policy, 1939-1941, II..........................................42
ŞTEFAN BOSOMITU, The Romanian Communist Party Central Committee’s Control Commission, 1945-1947......................................................................................................................................................57
LUMINIŢA BANU, FLORIAN BANU, The causes of the emigration of ethnic Germans from Romania reflected on the Security’s documents, 1948-1989, II………………………………………….82
RALUCA-NICOLETA SPIRIDON, LIVIU-MARIUS BEJENARU, Repression and information control in the period August 30th 1948 – March 14th 1956, I....................................................................99
TATIANA VOLOKITINA, Destalinization „à la Bulgarian”. Tchervenkov-Zhivkov: the Struggle for Power, 1953-1956, I...................................................................................................................................108
DRAGOŞ PETRESCU, Sixty Years After: Reassessing the Hungarian Revolution of 1956...............126
CEZAR STANCIU, A New Piece of Evidence Regarding the Antihegemonical State of the Romanian Foreign Policy during the communist regime. Romania and the Cypriot crisis from 1974.................. 141
ALEXANDRU-MURAD MIRONOV, Deepening Crisis. The Central Committee of Romanian Communist Party’s Plenum of 29th-30th of June, 1983…………………………………………………155
ANETA MIHAYLOVA, Reluctant Reformers: Zhivkov, Ceauşescu and the Moscow Wind of Change……………………………………………………………………………………………………161
FLORIN ABRAHAM, Justice system in communist Romania: between political control and autonomy, I...................................................................................................................................................................181
DOCUMENTS
CRISTINA DIAC, Romanian Communists in the Comintern Archive: Vanda Nicolski and the Romanian emigration in U.S.S.R. during the Great Terror, 1936-1938, II.............................................202
DAN CĂTĂNUŞ, Closing Up the Case Teohari Georgescu, 1955-1956.................................................221
IULIAN TOADER, “Mystery revealed?”: The Mănescu-Rusk conversation of 4 October 1963 and the beginning of the Romanian-American “special relationship”................................................................237
ANA-MARIA CĂTĂNUŞ, Dissident Mihai Botez on US-Romanian Relations Between 1968-1984, II.................................................................................................................................................................254
CONSTANTIN MORARU, Romanian – West-German Relations after Helsinki. The minutes of the Ceauşescu – Genscher meeting, 5 December 1975...................................................................................278
VASILE BUGA, The Russian Documents Reveals: On 4 December 1989 Nicolae Ceauşescu did not abandon his 1968 Stance.............................................................................................................................295
BIOGRAPHIES
DELIA BĂLĂICAN, G.A. Dabija (1872-1957).......................................................................................304
IONUŢ MIRCEA MARCU, Alexandru Moghioroș (1911-1969)……………………………………...308
THEODORA ENACHE, Leonte Răutu (1910-1933)………………………………………………….312
BOOK REVIEWS
IONUŢ FILIPESCU, Unemployment and political radicalism of the interwar students; FLORI BĂLĂNESCU, Women in Holocaust, II; VASILE BUGA, The Soviet Union and the revolutions in Eastern Europe; OCTAVIAN ROSKE, American presidencies and the challanges of the Cold War; DAN CĂTĂNUŞ, A history of postbelic Romania ................................................................................317
N.I.S.T. AGENDA.......................................................................................................................................336
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Totalitarianism Archives
Review of the National Institute of the Study of Totalitarianism
Volume XXIV, Number 90-91, 1-2/2016
EDITORIAL
RADU CIUCEANU, History as Ballast, XLV. A lesser known plan! (1895-1914)...................................5
STUDIES
ANTOANETA OLTEANU, Lenin and his Myths......................................................................................8
IOANA ELENA SECU, Russian Idea in the Soviet Foreign Policy, 1939-1941, I..............................................24
ION CONSTANTIN, The Polish Communists during the Second World War. An overview................44
ADAM BURAKOWSKI, People’s Tribunal in Bulgaria, 1944-1945…………………………………65
MARIUS TĂRÎŢĂ, Abstract: Preliminary notes on the issue of the Romanian language in Moldavian SSR during the first postwar years, 1944-1948………………………………………………………….87
PETRE OPRIŞ, A short biography of the Soviet Spy Piotr Gonciaruk....................................................98
LUMINIŢA BANU, FLORIAN BANU, The causes of the emigration of ethnic Germans from Romania reflected on the Security’s documents, 1948-1989, I………………………………………….107
ADRIAN CONSTANTIN ROTAR, The beginning of collectivization in Northern Moldavia and Bukovina. The peasant rebellions and communist repression, 1949.......................................................122
ALEKSANDR STYKALIN, The Soviet-Yugoslavian closeness during 1955-1956 and the dissolution of Cominform................................................................................................................................................141
DAN CĂTĂNUŞ, Romanian Efforts for the Withdrawal of Soviet Troops from Romania, 1955-1956..............................................................................................................................................................155
ALEXANDRU-MURAD MIRONOV, A “Great Leap Forward”. The Central Committee of the Romanian Workers’ Party Plenum of 26th-28th November, 1958……………………………………………………….173
IONUŢ-MARIAN FILIPESCU, Between propaganda and academic interest: The fifteenth International Congress of Historical Sciences (Bucharest, 10-17 August 1980)....................................182
MIOARA ANTON, „Working with letters“. Propagandistic fictions and everyday realities, II: 1980-1989..............................................................................................................................................................192
DOCUMENTS
CRISTINA DIAC, Romanian Communists in the Comintern Archive: Vanda Nicolski and the Romanian emigration in U.S.S.R. during the Great Terror, 1936-1938, I..............................................207
MIHAI BURCEA, Olga Bancic and the last thoughts of a French Resistance member, 9 May 1944............................................................................................................................................................244
GHEORGHE ONIŞORU, The last statement of Vasile Luca during the Securitate investigation, 25 September 1954............................................................................................................................................247
ANA-MARIA CĂTĂNUŞ, Dissident Mihai Botez on US-Romanian Relations Between 1968-1984, I…………………………………..………………………………………………………………………..262
VASILE BUGA, Did Ceausescu Ask for the Invasion of Poland? A Report of the Soviet Ambassador Tiajelnikov, 19 August 1989......................................................................................................................276
BIOGRAPHIIES
ALINA ILINCA, LIVIU MARIUS BEJENARU, Aurel Ardeleanu (1913-1986).................................288
ANDREEA-FLORENTINA MÂNICEANU, Iosif Rangheț (1904-1952)..............................................294
FLORIN ŞANDRU, Nicolae Turcu (1891-1955).....................................................................................298
BOOK REVIEWS
IONUŢ MIRCEA MARCU, The Romanian Village under the Siege of Collectivization of Agriculture; FLORIAN BANU, Short history of a long century; FLORI BĂLĂNESCU, Women in Holocaust, I; VASILE BUGA, The Recent History of the Eastern Europe countries seen from Moscow; OCTAVIAN ROSKE, The dilemmas of power: trends and orientations in American foreign policy in the XX-th century..........................................................................................................................................................302
N.I.S.T. AGENDA.......................................................................................................................................321
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Totalitarianism Archives
Review of the National Institute of the Study of Totalitarianism
Volume XXIII, Number 88-89, 3-4/2015
EDITORIAL
RADU CIUCEANU, History as Ballast, XLIV. Russia once again….........................................................5
STUDIES
IRINA LYUBOMIROVA OGNYANOVA, External and Local Influences on the Ustasha Ideological System in the 1930s and the First Half of the 1940s……………………………………………………….7
MIKHAIL NAKONECHNIY, Mortality rates of GULAG timber camps during 1937-1938 crisis in comparative international context……………………………………………………………………….24
MIHAI BURCEA, The career of a former NKVD agent during the years of "people's power" in Romania: Simion Babenco, II......................................................................................................................45
DAN CĂTĂNUŞ, Emil Bodnăraş and the struggle for power within the Romanian Communist Party, April 1944 – May 1952, II…………………………………………………………………………………59
FLORIAN BANU, From cooperation to isolation. The Securitate relations with similar Secret Services in WTO countries, 1955-1989, II................................................................................................................73
MIOARA ANTON, „Working with letters“. Propagandistic fictions and everyday realities, 1965-1980..............................................................................................................................................................91
CEZAR STANCIU, Romania and the projects for Balkan cooperation, 1969-1975.............................105
ALEXANDRU-MURAD MIRONOV, Launching a National Development Project: Romanian Communist Party’s Conference of 19-21 July 1972................................................................................121
CRISTINA PETRESCU, Aktionsgruppe Banat Reconstructs Its Past, II: Secret Police Archives and Transitional Justice………………………………………………………………………………………131
ADAM BURAKOWSKI, A less-known moment of Polish-Romanian relations. The visit of Wojciech Jaruzelski in Romania in June 1982.....................................................................................................145
АNNA S. GLADYSHEVA, The Soviet Media on the Romanian Revolution of December 1989………157
CONSTANTIN CORNEANU, December 1989. The Failure of the Romanian Elite...........................169
CIPRIAN BĂLĂBAN, Political Propaganda among the Religion in Romania, before and after 1989. The Case of Penticostal Denomination.....................................................................................................191
ANTOANETA OLTEANU, Russian Anti-Totalitarian Literature..........................................................201
ADRIAN SOLOMON, Repression, Resistance, and Solidarity in Orwell’s Oceania and Communist Romania: A Situationist Perspective…………………………………………………………………..220
DOCUMENTS
IOAN CHIPER, MAGDALENA TIŢĂ, Gheorghi Dimitrov – Ana Pauker – Emil Bodnăraş: Inedited documents concerning internal situation of Romania and Romanian communist relations with Sofia and Moscow during spring 1945......................................................................................................................238
SEBASTIAN MITRACHE, Romania and the Soviet Intervention against the Prague Spring. A NATO Assessment……………………………………………………………………………………………….255
BIOGRAPHIES
IONUŢ-MARIAN FILIPESCU, Petre Borilă (1906-1973)....................................................................279
CRISTIAN-ADELIN DUMITRU, Valter Roman (1913-1983)...............................................................281
Valter Roman (1913-1983)
BOOK REVIEWS
OCTAVIAN ROSKE, A failed bet: The Romanian Socialist Agriculture; DAN CĂTĂNUŞ, The histories of the letters sent to the Communist power................................................................................286
POINTS OF VIEW
ALEXANDRU BADEA, Ion Mihalache (1882 - 1963). A Sketch of a Portrait......................................295
N.I.S.T. AGENDA.......................................................................................................................................302
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Volume XXIII, Number 86-87, 1-2/2015
EDITORIAL
RADU CIUCEANU, History as Ballast, XLIII. Mişu Benvenisti and his fellows…...........................................................................................................................................................5
STUDIES
ION CONSTANTIN, In Moscow’s Shadows. The Communist Party of Poland during interwar period, 1918-1937 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………16
ANTOANETA OLTEANU, Common Luxury of Soviet Russia in the 1930’s.........................................28
FLORIN GRECU, The Single-Party State under Charles the II. A Case Study: The Ministry of National Renaissance Front, 1938-1940...................................................................................................................38
TATIANA V. VOLOKITINA, The Antifascist Coalition and Romania: The Preparation and the Signing of the September 1944 Armistice Agreement.................................................................................58
DAN CĂTĂNUŞ, Emil Bodnăraş and the struggle for power within the Romanian Communist Party, April 1944 – May 1952, I…………………………………………………………………………………..80
GHEORGHE ONIŞORU, Preliminaries to the Establishment of the Petru Groza Government,
on March 6, 1945........................................................................................................................................94
MIHAI BURCEA, The career of a former NKVD agent during the years of "people's power" in Romania: Simion Babenco, I.....................................................................................................................113
FLORIAN BANU, From cooperation to isolation. The Securitate relations with similar Secret Services in WTO countries, 1955-1989, I................................................................................................................125
ALEXANDRU-MURAD MIRONOV, The Romanian Communist Party at Its 9th Congress, July 1965: Modernization or Bureaucratism..............................................................................................................146
ELENA NEGRU, Soviet-Romanian Historiographical Confrontations in 1960’s – 1980’s................159
CRISTINA PETRESCU, Aktionsgruppe Banat Reconstructs Its Past, I: Personal Memories and Collective Identity………………………………………………………………………………………..180
ALEKSANDR S. STYKALIN, The New Soviet Approach of the 1956 Hungarian Crisis in the context of the reevaluation of the „Brezhnev Doctrine” at the end of the 80’s and the beginning of the 1990’s..........................................................................................................................................................194
MIHAELA ŞIMONCA, Norman Manea – Personal History as a Premise for Fiction. The Holocaust, Communism, Exile as Collective Drama Sublimated through Writing.................................................214
DOCUMENTS
CRISTINA DIAC, The Communists from Romania in the Comintern Archives: Béla Breiner and the members of the Communist Party of Romania during the Great Terror, 1936-1938………………….237
VASILE BUGA, A holiday meeting. The minutes of the Crimean Talks between Ceauşescu and Brejnev, 3 August 1976...........................................................................................................................260
BIOGRAPHIES
MIHAI BURCEA, Ion Anton Vidraşcu (1905-1978)..............................................................................279
BOOK REVIEWS
FLORI BĂLĂNESCU, An stateless between the "heritage" of the Armenian genocide and the Communist experience; ION CONSTANTIN, An outstanding book on the NKVD murders in the Soviet Republic of Moldova during the Great Terror, 1937-1938; OCTAVIAN ROSKE, Selective memories: the year of the rebellion, the years of repression…………………………………….................………...285
N.I.S.T. AGENDA.......................................................................................................................................298
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EDITORIAL
RADU CIUCEANU, History as Ballast, XLII: A 100 Years from the Crucial Romanian Crown Council.............................................................................................................................................................5
STUDIES
Cosmin Popa, Soviet Technological “Revolution” and the Development of Military Industrial Complex, 1945-1953.......................................................................................................................................................15
ALEXANDRU-MURAD MIRONOV, The Central Committee of the Romanian Workers Party Plenum of 10-11 June 1948........................................................................................................................................35
MARIUS TĂRÎŢĂ, The preliminaries to the activity of Leonid I. Brezhnev at Chişinău in July 1950-September 1952..............................................................................................................................................38
ANASTASIA KONOHOVA, Socialist thrust of the dissident movement in the Soviet Union
during the 1950s - 1960s................................................................................................................................56
GHEORGHE COJOCARU, Nikita Khruschev’s policy of “thaw” and the Bessarabian Question…………………………………………………………………………………………………….67
DUMITRU LĂCĂTUŞU, The Biography of a Securitate Leader: Colonel Gheorghe Enoiu..............................................................................................................................................................79
CSONGOR JÁNOSI, The Extraordinary Life of An Ordinary Man. Árpád Mózes Szabó, 1927-1987, II…………………………………………………………………..………………………………………...91
CRISTIAN TRONCOTĂ, December 1989. Sibiu’ Massacre...............................................................108
CRISTINA PREUTU, Personnel Files of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party, 1945-1989....................................................................................................................................................121
DRAGOŞ PETRESCU, State against the Citizens and Citizens against the State: Repression and Insurgent Violence in Communist Romania, 1945–1989..........................................................................125
FLORIN ABRAHAM, To Collaborate and to Punish. Democracy and transitional justice in Romania…………………………………………………………………………………………………...142
DOCUMENTS
CRISTINA DIAC, Communist Party of Romania’s Leaders in the Archive of Comintern: Al. Daneliuk-Ştefanski…………………………………………………………………………………………………..165
OCTAVIAN ROSKE, Memories of Collectivization in Romania............................................................179
ŞTEFN BOSOMITU, Another failed de-stalinization. A Memorandum of the Independent Communist Party, 15 May 1958......................................................................................................................................189
DAN CĂTĂNUŞ, At the crossroads. Romanian-Soviet Relations after the invasion of Czechoslovakia, August-September 1968..............................................................................................................................202
VASILE BUGA, A new Romanian-Soviet high level clash. The minutes of talks in Moscow, 19 May 1970, II ........................................................................................................................................................211
CONSTANTIN MORARU, Romania and the Jewish emigration. Washington discussions between Nicolae Ceauşescu and American Jewish Organizations, 11 June 1975.................................................242
ANA-MARIA CĂTĂNUŞ, C.I.A., Radio Free Europe and Romania. An 1981 „Securitate” Analysis........................................................................................................................................................252
BOOK REVIEWS
ION CONSTANTIN, A Necessary Instrument for the Research of Romanian-Polish Relations; CLAUDIU DEGERATU, Conscience: the Last Fronteer to be Conquered; FLORI BĂLĂNESCU, The Intellectual under Communism: an Iminent “Social Danger”; ALEXANDRU-MURAD MIRONOV, Nationalism and Antisemitism in Interwar Bukovina...............................................................................262
N.I.S.T. AGENDA.......................................................................................................................................272
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EDITORIAL
RADU CIUCEANU, History as Ballast, XLI: Ştefan Neniţescu..................................................................5
STUDIES
SVETLANA SUVEICĂ, A Russian Diplomat in Bucharest: S.A. Poklevski-Koziell and the ‘Bessarabian Cause’, 1919-1920…………………………………………………………………………...10
CSONGOR JÁNOSI, The Extraordinary Life of An Ordinary Man. Árpád Mózes Szabó, 1927-1987, I……………………………………………………………………..………………………………………...31
MIHAELA MUSTĂŢEA, Italy and the Failure of the European Defence Community, 1950-1954.......52
LIU YONG, Romania and Sino-Soviet Relations Moving Towards Split, 1960-1965...............................65
PETRE OPRIŞ, Tests of the Regime from Bucharest on Acquisition of „Boeing” Airliners, 1964-1974………………………………………………………………………………………………………....81
OVIDIU BOZGAN, Romania’s relations with Imperial Iran, 1965-1968, III……………...……………93
ALEXANDRU-MURAD MIRONOV, National Conference of the Romanian Communist Party, 17-21 October 1945……………………………………………………………………………………………....117
ALEXANDRA TOADER, Mass Political Agitation……………………………………………………..121
DOCUMENTS
CRISTINA DIAC, Comunists from Romania in the Archive of the Comintern: Boris Ştefanov’s Case………………………………………………………………………………………………………..125
DAN CĂTĂNUŞ, The Case of Ana Pauker. An 1954 Account…………………………………………150
ALEKSANDR STYKALIN, Khruschev and Tito: A Long Discussion on Romania (Leningrad, June 1964)………………………………………………………………………………………………………165
FLORI BĂLĂNESCU, Bessarabia, Bucovina, Hertza Region, Chilia Channel and the Snake Island: An 1965 study on their political and diplomatic situation………………………………………………195
VASILE BUGA, A new Romanian-Soviet high level clash. The minutes of talks in Moscow, 19 May 1970, I……………………………………………………………………………………………………216
POINTS OF VIEW
ALEXANDRU BUDIŞTEANU, Rehabilitating USSR and Stalin at all costs?.....................................248
BIOGRAPHIES
FLORIN ŞANDRU, Ion Taflaru (1910-1973)..........................................................................................257
BOOK REVIEWS
OCTAVIAN ROSKE, The Anatomy of Repression in SSR of Moldova during 1924-1956; DAN CĂTĂNUŞ, Romanian-Soviet Relations at the Beginning of the 1960s. A New Perspective; ALEXANDRU-MURAD MIRONOV, Romanian and European Diplomacy...........................................264
N.I.S.T. AGENDA.......................................................................................................................................279
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EDITORIAL
RADU CIUCEANU, History as Ballast, XXXIX. Twenty Years after..........................................................5
STUDIES
RADU CIUCEANU, Hidden Histories, III...................................................................................................7
DAN CĂTĂNUŞ, Midnight in Kremlin. Gheorghiu-Dej’s Meetings with Stalin, 1944-1952, II..............18
IRINA GRIDAN, The Purges of Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Diplomatic Personnel, 1945-1947.......................................................................................................................................................33
MARIUS TĂRÎŢĂ, The Moldovan Literary Life during Late Stalinism, 1948-1951…………………...48
ALINA PAVELESCU, New Politics of Elites' Selection at the University of Bucharest, 1948-1955, II.....................................................................................................................................................................57
IULIU CRĂCANĂ, The Enforcement Of the Law by the Popular Judge in the Regime of People’s Democracy, 1948-1960..................................................................................................................................76
OVIDIU BOZGAN, Romania’s Relations with Imperial Iran, 1965-1968, II..........................................87
PETRE OPRIŞ, Some Points of View Regarding the French-Romanian Economic Relations in 1965-1970..............................................................................................................................................................105
ANDREI FLORIN SORA, The Local Political Life and its Actors during Communism: the First Secretaries of the County Committees of the RCP, 1968-1989..................................................................115
OLGA ZASLAVSKAIA, Testimonies of Cold War. Samizdat Archives……………………………….130
ALEKSANDR ZHITENEV, Victor Krivulin as a Theorist of «Unofficial» Culture from USSR, 1976-1984....................................................................................................................................................................150
COSMIN BUDEANCĂ, „The Church Doesn’t Emigrate”. The Bishop Albert Klein and the Emigration of the Evangelical Lutheran Priests from Romania in the 1970’s and the 1980’s, II..............................165
MARGARITA CHABANNA, The Methods of Shaping Social Consciousness in Totalitarian State: the Role of Psychological Manipulation..........................................................................................................179
DOCUMENTS
CRISTINA DIAC, Ştefan Foriş, a Typicall Professional Party Worker………………………………..196
OCTAVIAN ROSKE, The Collectivization of Agriculture in Romania. Repressive Actions at the Beginning of the 1950s................................................................................................................................217
VASILE BUGA, Thaw in Romanian-Soviet Relations. Minutes of Moscow Meeting in May 1969, II...................................................................................................................................................................225
CONSTANTIN MORARU, Romania and Polish crises from 1981........................................................249
BIOGRAPHIES
FLORIN RĂZVAN MIHAI, Barbu Zaharescu (1906-2000)...................................................................254
FLORIN ŞANDRU, Ion Prunescu (1915-?).............................................................................................258
BOOK REVIEWS
FLORI BĂLĂNESCU, The Unveiling of the Securitate Collaborators: Between Judiciary Verdict and Moral Guilt; VASILE BUGA, Romanian-Soviet Relations Seen from Chişinău, 1965-1975; NARCIS POPESCU, Testimonies regarding the Collectivization in Bukovina; FLORIN ABRAHAM, History as a Show of Human Nature............................................................................................................................263
N.I.S.T. AGENDA.......................................................................................................................................276
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EDITORIAL
RADU CIUCEANU, History as Ballast, XXXIX. Hidden Histories, II.......................................................5
STUDIES
ION CONSTANTIN, The Terms of Bessarabia’s Union to Romania, 1918.............................................17
DAN CĂTĂNUŞ, Midnight in Kremlin. Gheorghiu-Dej’s Meetings with Stalin, 1944-1952, I...............29
SORIN RADU, Mihail Ghelmegeanu and his Conception about the Distinct Way of Ploughmen’s Front towards Romanian Communist Party, 1944-1947.......................................................................................48
ADRIAN VIŢALARU, Methods and Practices of Imposing Communist Control over the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1944 -1948)………………………………………………………………….61
IOAN SCURTU, From Sighet Prison to the Academy of the Romanian Socialist Republic. Case Study: Constantin C. Giurescu................................................................................................................................83
ALINA PAVELESCU, New Politics of Elites' Selection at the University of Bucharest, 1948-1955, I…..................................................................................................................................................................93
ALEXANDRU-MURAD MIRONOV, Romanian People’s Republic and the Beginning of European Integration, 1957........................................................................................................................................110
OVIDIU BOZGAN, Romania’s Relations with Imperial Iran, 1965-1968, I..........................................119
CEZAR STANCIU, The Comintern’s Legacy. The Romanian Communists and the Unity of World Communist Movement, 1967-1969, III.......................................................................................................134
ELENA NEGRU, Reactions of the Communist Party of Soviet Moldova towards Romania’s Attitude during the Soviet-Czechoslovak Crisis of 1968………………………………………………………….148
COSMIN BUDEANCĂ, „The Church Doesn’t Emigrate”. The Bishop Albert Klein and the Emigration of the Evangelical Lutheran Priests from Romania in the 1970’s and the 1980’s, I...............................166
FELICIAN VELIMIROVICI, Nationalism, Romanticism and Socialism as Reflected in the Review “The Fight of the Entire People”, 1984-1989..................................................................................................180
DOCUMENTS
OCTAVIAN ROSKE, Enforcing the Quota System in Romanian Villages. Application of Decree 183/1949......................................................................................................................................................188
ALEKSANDR STYKALIN, Soviet-Polish Summit after N.S. Khruschev’Dismissal, October 1964. New Evidences from Soviet Archives…………………………………………………………………………..199
VASILE BUGA, Thaw in Romanian-Soviet Relations. Minutes of Moscow Meeting in May 1969, I...218
POINTS OF VIEW
ALEXANDRU BUDIŞTEANU, The Romanian Military Cemetery from Bălţi – Thoughts about Fallen Soldiers........................................................................................................................................................242
V.L. MUSATOV, Stalin’s Role in the WWII Soviet Victory……………………………………………246
BOOK REVIEWS
VASILE BUGA, Testimonies about the Activity of A.M. Saharovski in Romania; CEZAR STANCIU, New Evaluations on the Foreign Policy of Communist Romania........................................................…264
N.I.S.T. AGENDA.......................................................................................................................................272
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Editorial
RADU CIUCEANU, History as Ballast, XXXVIII. Hidden Histories, I……………………….....................5
Studies
MARIUS TĂRÎŢĂ, Ideology and Literature in Soviet Moldova, 1945-1948 ……………………………..17
ÉVA CSESZKA, Economic Type Trials in the Rákosi Regime in Hungary 1947-1953…………………....30
MARIAN-ALIN DUDOI, A Political Trial in Romania: the Oilman Alexander W. Evans Case, 1948……………………………………………………………………………………………………………46
ALINA ILINCA, LIVIU MARIUS BEJENARU, The Securitate’s Disinformation and Propaganda Actions against the West, 1948-1989, III……………………………………………………………………53
DAN CĂTĂNUŞ, Political and Ideological Deviations in R.C.P.: the Conciliatory Attitude…………….68
DUMITRU LĂCĂTUŞU, Tudor Sepeanu – The Rise and Fall of a Securitate officer ……………………74
TUDOR VLĂDESCU, The Literature of Resentment in the Romanian Socialist Propaganda Novel. An Introduction to a Study of Fear in Fiction ………………………………………………………………..91
CEZAR STANCIU, The Comintern's Legacy. The Romanian Communists and the unity of World Communist Movement, 1967-1969, II ……………………………………………………………………102
ANA-MARIA CĂTĂNUŞ, Dorin Tudoran and the Condition of the Romanian Intellectual under Communism ………………………………………………………………………………………………..117
VASILE BUGA, Romanian-Soviet Controversies on the Extension of Warsaw Treaty’ validity, 1984-1985 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..133
PETRE OPRIŞ, A Military Plot against the President of Romania, october 1984………………………144
CORNELIU PINTILESCU, A Comparative Analysis of Totalitarianism. Post 1989 Anglo-Saxon and German Perspectives………………………………………………………………………………………159
FLORIN ABRAHAM, Epistemological Challenges of the Totalitarianism Theory, II…………………173
Documents
ALEXANDRU-MURAD MIRONOV, European Federalism under surveillance by the State Siguranţa, 1926, II..........................................................................................................................................................188
CRISTINA DIAC, Griviţa Strike from 1933, Seen by the Main Actors. A Vasile Bâgu’s Statement. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..201
OCTAVIAN ROSKE, The Collectivization of Agriculture. Total Repression, 1957-1962, XXXII………………………………………………………………………………………………………….217
GHEORGHE E. COJOCARU, Fightings on the Ideological Front in Soviet Moldova, III………….. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..224
CRISTINA ROMAN, History and Politics. The 60 Years Celebration of 1918 “Great Union”……………………………………………………………………………………………………..230
POINTS OF VIEW
FLORIAN BANU, Contemporary historical discourse - Between science of history and a history-indictment …………………………………………………………………………………………………242
BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY
RALUCA NICOLETA SPIRIDON, Şerban Cioculescu (1902-1988) ………………………………….255
FLORIN ŞANDRU, Neculae Trâmbaciu (1902-1955) …………………………………………………262
ION CONSTANTIN, Onisifor Ghibu (1883-1972) ………………………………………………………264
BOOK REVIEWS
ANA-MARIA CĂTĂNUŞ, A War Nerver Declared: the Securitate versus Radio Free Europe; CEZAR STANCIU, The Supression of Democratic Press in Romania..................................................................270
N.I.S.T. AGENDA.......................................................................................................................................281
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Editorial
RADU CIUCEANU, History as Ballast, XXXVII. … …………………………………................................5
STUDIES
LILIANA COROBCA, An Incursion into the Soviet Censorship (Glavlit), 1922-1991 ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..8
RADU FLORIAN BRUJA, The National-Christian Defence League in Bukovina, 1926-1928. An organisation between building and splitting ………………………………………………………………21
KARI ALENIUS, The Successes and Failures of German War Propaganda in Estonia, 1941-1944................................................................................................................................................................41
RADU PETRESCU, The Annihilation of the Red Mountain “Bandits” Led by Colonel Gheorghe Arsenescu. The Role Played by Traian Marinescu-Geagu and Alexandru Alexandrescu………………….59
ALINA ILINCA, LIVIU MARIUS BEJENARU, The Securitate’s Disinformation and Propaganda Actions against the West, 1948-1989………………………………………………………………………..75
PETRE OPRIŞ, Indian-Soviet-Chinese Relations in Bucharest’s Perspective, 1955-1964, II……………86
SCHLETT ANDRÁS, Success and Failure of the Hungarian Agrarian Model, 1960-1990.………………………………………………………………………………………………………...96
DAN CĂTĂNUŞ, The Illusion of Normalcy: the Romanian Academy at the Beginning of Nicolae Ceauşescu’s Regime. ………………………………………………………………………………………...109
CEZAR STANCIU, The Comintern's Legacy. The Romanian Communists and the unity of World Communist Movement, 1967-1969, I ……………………………………………………………………..122
ANA-MARIA CĂTĂNUŞ, The Path to Freedom. Doina Cornea and Romanian Dissent in the 1980’………………………………………………………………………………………………………138
MIHAELA VERZEA, Theorizing the Concept of Party-State: Historiographical Landmarks......……..157
FLORIN ABRAHAM, Epistemological Challenges of the Totalitarianism Theory, I………..................168
DOCUMENTS
ALEXANDRU-MURAD MIRONOV, European Federalism under Surveillance by the State Siguranţa, 1926, I ………………………………………………………………………………………………………184
OCTAVIAN ROSKE, The Collectivization of Agriculture. Total Repression, 1957-1962, XXXI............199
CLAUDIU DEGERATU, Nicolae Ceauşescu and “the New Illegal Members” of the Romanian Communist Party, 1965-1968 ……………………………………………………………………………….208
GHEORGHE E. COJOCARU, Fightings on the Ideological Front in Soviet Moldova, II……………..216
TESTIMONIES
FLORIN-RĂZVAN MIHAI, CRISTINA DIAC, German Ethnics Deportation from Romania to U.S.S.R.., 1945-1949 ………………………………………………………………………………………234
BIOGRAPHIES
RADU PETRESCU, Gheorghe I. Cotenescu (1886-1965)…...………………………………………….249
ALIN SPÂNU, Alexandru Ghyka (1903-1982)………………………………………………………….252
FLORI BĂLĂNESCU, Vasile Paraschiv (1928-2011)………………………………………………….255
FLORIN-RĂZVAN MIHAI, Gheorghe (Gogu) Rădulescu (1914-1991)……………………………….261
BOOK REVIEWS
VASILE BUGA, A Noteworhy Editorial Novelty; CEZAR STANCIU, A New Perspective on the Sino-Soviet Conflict; DORIN-DEMOSTENE IANCU, The Priest Pálfi Géza under the Securitate Scrutinity.....................................................................................................................................................267
N.I.S.T. AGENDA.......................................................................................................................................276
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EDITORIAL
RADU CIUCEANU, Extending the Field of Research in Romania:
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STUDIES
LAURENŢIU CONSTANTINIU, The Soviet State’s Political Police: From Leninist Revolutionarism to Stalinist Pragmatism..................................................................................................................................11
ALEXANDRU-MURAD MIRONOV, And Quiet Flows the Dniester. Life and Death on the Romanian-Soviet Border, 1918-1940……………………………………………………………………….…………32
FLORIN-RĂZVAN MIHAI, Candidates and Candidacies During General Elections in Romania, 1926-1928............................................................................................................................................................59
CRISTIAN TRONCOTĂ, Personalities of the Secret Front in Romania: Gheorghe Cristescu.......................................................................................................................................................80
CRISTINA DIAC, The Chronicle of a Political Collapse. The Communist Party in Romania and the End of Greater Romania.......................................................................................................................................90
MIOARA ANTON, On Russians and Russophobia in Romania during the 1940’s……………………..…………………………………………………………………………….111
ION CONSTANTIN, Katyń Massacres: The Way to the Truth………………………………………120
VASILE BUGA, The Repatriation of the Romanian Prisoners from The Soviet Union,
1945-1952 .........................140
VESA VARES, The Western Powers and Finland during the Cold War:
What was “Finlandization”? ......................147
PETRE OPRIŞ, Indian-Soviet-Chinese Relations in Bucharest’s Perspective, 1955-1964. I…………………………………………………………………………………………..………………164
DAN CĂTĂNUŞ, Romania – Another Czechoslovakia? The Prospect of a Soviet Invasion and the Question of Foreign Support, 1968.............................................................................................................173
ANA-MARIA CĂTĂNUŞ, A Case of Dissent in Romania in the 1970’s: Paul Goma and the Movement for Human Rights.....................................................................................................................................185
OCTAVIAN ROSKE, The Biographical Dictionary of Repression: Methodology, Pattern, Sources……………………………………………………………………………………………………210
FLORIN ABRAHAM, The Influence of Anticommunism over Recent Romanian Historiography………...............................................................................................................................228
ANA-MARIA RĂDULESCU, The Adventist Church...............................................................................249
CLAUDIU DEGERATU, The Romanian Academy..................................................................................258
ANA-MARIA RĂDULESCU, The Romanian Orthodox Church.............................................................264
FLORI BĂLĂNESCU, On Romanian Political Prison Poetry.................................................................270
CARMEN RĂDULESCU, The Union of Architects in the Romanian People’s Republic and in the
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RADU CIUCEANU, History as Ballast, XXXVI. Seventy years after… …………………………………5
STUDIES
RADU FLORIAN BRUJA, The Founding of Right-Wing movement in interwar Bucovina: the case of the National-Christian Defense League.......................................................................................................................8
FELICIAN VELIMIROVICI, The Origins of Soviet Historiography.......................................................23
TATIANA V. VOLOKITINA, The Image of Romania in the War-time Soviet Propaganda.................................................................................................................................................31
FELICIAN DUICĂ, The Political Migration with the Romanians, 1919-1947, II.....................................45
ALINA ILINCA, LIVIU MARIUS BEJENARU, The Securitate’s Disinformation and Propaganda Actions against the West, 1948-1989, I.........................................................................................................61
ELENA DRAGOMIR, Reactions of the Romanian population in the context of the Hungarian revolution, 1956, II........................................................................................................................................................73
PIERRE BOUILLON, Romania and Hungary within the French Foreign Policy in the Eastern Europe: Parallelism or Convergency? (1969-1974)…………………………………………………………………93
PETRE OPRIŞ, Programmes for making romanian tanks and missiles………………………………105
ANA-MARIA CĂTĂNUŞ, A media fabrication? Similarities between Mihai Botez şi Andrei Sakharov dissidence..................................................................................................................................................117
ION CONSTANTIN, Romanians and Polish „Solidarity”, 1981-1989...................................................125
MIHAELA VERZEA, Theorizing the concept of Party-State: historiographical landmarks, II..............133
DOCUMENTS
PUICA BUHOCI, History and fraud. New evidences about the National Resistance Movement in Oltenia, II.................................................................................................................................................................143
FLORIN ŞANDRU, The Comintern and the Romanian Communists as Seen by the Police Department of the Capital City, 1941, III..........................................................................................................................158
OCTAVIAN ROSKE, The Collectivization of Agriculture. Total Repression, 1957-1962, XXX............................................................................................................................................................175
GHEORGHE E. COJOCARU, Fightings on the Ideological Front in Soviet Moldova..........................185
CRISTINA ROMAN, Political Guidance for Romanian Participants at the 15th International History Congres, from Bucharest, 1980................................................................................................................203
DAN CĂTĂNUŞ, Institutional evolutions under Nicolae Ceauşescu’regime: The strenghtening of economic centralism and the temptation of absolute power, 1987.............................................................215
DICTIONARY OF INSTITUTIONS
CARMEN RĂDULESCU, Romanian Institute for the Cultural Relations Abroad..................................223
ALEXANDRU-MURAD MIRONOV, Union of Composers and Musicologists of Romanian People’s Republic/Socialist Republic of Romania....................................................................................................229
BIOGRAPHIES
FLORIN-RĂZVAN MIHAI, Emil Bobu (b. 1927).................................................................................234
ANA-MARIA RĂDULESCU, Dumitru Cinciu (1904-1982)....................................................................239
RALUCA NICOLETA SPIRIDON, Petru Dumitriu (1924-2002)...........................................................243
BRÂNDUŞA COSTACHE, Aurel Vijoli (1902-1981)............................................................................252
BOOK REVIEWS
CLAUDIU DEGERATU, A Trustworthy Relation; CRISTINA DIAC, The Beginnings of Romanian Communism................................................................................................................................................258
N.I.S.T. AGENDA.......................................................................................................................................266
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Totalitarianism Archives
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Volume XVIII Number 66-67 1-2/2010
EDITORIAL
RADU CIUCEANU, History as Ballast, XXXIV 5
STUDIES
ION ILIESCU, 1989 and the Importance of the Romanian Revolution 17
EMIL CONSTANTINESCU, The 1989 Revolutions as History or Myth 24
ALEXANDRU-MURAD MIRONOV, Introductory Remarks on the History of the French Right-Wing: The Action Française 29
ION CONSTANTIN, The Soviet-Polish War (February 1919 – March 1921): The “Miracle on the Vistula” 38
FELICIAN DUICĂ, The Political Migration with the Romanians 1919-1947, I 55
CRISTINA DIAC, A Controversial Issue: The Communist Party and the Legionary Rebellion of January 1941 67
ION BĂLAN, The “Socialist Transformation of Agriculture” in Mihailesti District, 1950-1956 82
ELENA DRAGOMIR, Reactions of the Romanian Population in the Context of the Hungarian Revolution, 1956 96
CRISTIAN RĂDUŢ, Regarding the Withdrawal from Romania of the Soviet Occupation Troops in the Summer of 1958 111
A.K. SOKOLOV, New Approaches in Russian Contemporary History 122
DOCUMENTS
FLORIN ŞANDRU, The Comintern and the Romanian Communists as Seen by the Police Department of the Capital City, 1941, I 129
RADU CIUCEANU, Regiment I Heavy Artillery in its finest hour .147
OCTAVIAN ROSKE, The Collectivization of Agriculture. Total Repression, 1957-1962 166
VASILE BUGA, A Hot Summer in Romanian-Soviet Relations. The Moscow Talks, July 1964, II 179
TESTIMONIES
FLORIN-RĂZVAN MIHAI, Memories about the Last International Meeting of the Communist and Worker Parties (5-17 June 1969) 196
Dictionary of Institutions
DAN CĂTĂNUŞ, The State Committee on Collection of Agricultural Produce 212
CARMEN RĂDULESCU, The Plastic Artists Union 217
FLORI BĂLĂNESCU, Prison Poetry 221
BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY
CRISTINA DIAC, Constantin Dăscălescu (1923-2003) 228
ANA-MARIA RĂDULESCU, Emanoil Păsculescu-Orlea (1901-1967) 231
ALIN SPÂNU, Alexandru Rioşanu (1892 – 1941) 237
BOOK REVIEWS
VASILE BUGA, The Problem of Transylvania and Soviet geopolitical interests 239
ANA-MARIA CĂTĂNUŞ, Dissidence as a pledge for the truth 244
VASILE BUGA, Second Lieutenant Alexandru Ţăţulescu – Victim of Political Repression in SSSR 247
RADU FLORIAN BRUJA, Electors and Elected in Interwar Romania 248
DAN CĂTĂNUŞ, From the History of Transylviania Hungarians during
Communism 251
FLORIN ŞANDRU, War Prisoner in Soviet Camps 253
The NIST Agenda 260
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Totalitarianism Archives
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Volume XVIII Number 64-65 3-4/2009
EDITORIAL
ACAD. DAN BERINDEI, The Breakdown of the Communism – Miracle or Inexorable Phenomenon 5
Studies
CATALIN-VALENTIN RAIU, The Principle and the Practice of Subsidiarity in Romanian Orthodoxy. I. The Interwar Period 8
ROMINA SURUGIU, Revisions and Addenda: Constantin Radulescu-Motru on Romanian Culture in the Post-War Period 27
ACAD. PĂUN ION OTIMAN, The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture 36
Collectivization of Agriculture in Romania
DAN CATANUS, The Agrarian Component of „the Right Deviation” inside the R.C.P., 1951-1952 56
Ö. KOVÁCS JÓZSEF, The Social History of Collectivization in Hungary, 1958-1961 68
IRINA GRIDAN, Parallelisms and Convergences. I.Gh. Maurer in Paris in the Summer of 1964: Realpolitik and the Offensive of the Smile (III) 36
DRAGOS ZAMFIRESCU, “Perestroika” and „glasnost” in the Soviet Union or the Preliminaries of the Breakdown of the Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe 123
PETRE OPRIS, Nicolae Ceausescu and his Political Illusion: the Simultaneous Abolishment of NATO and the Warsaw Treaty 138
FLORIN ABRAHAM, The Collectivization of Agriculture in Romania – a Process of Societal Transformation 151
ION CONSTANTIN, Parallel Destinies: Romania and Poland Facing the Totalitarianisms of the XX century 165
DOCUMENTS
OCTAVIAN ROSKE, The Collectivization of Agriculture. Total Repression, 1957-1962, XXVII 173
CRISTINA DIAC, The Last Victim of the Collectivization of Agriculture: The Case of Ilie Tugui, 1963-1964 180
VASILE BUGA, A hot summer in Romanian-Soviet Relations. The Moscow talks, July 1964,I 195
ANA-MARIA CATANUS, Mihai Botez on Intellectuals and the European Cultural Space 223
TESTIMONIES
ION ILIESCU, 1971 – The Year of Ideological Changes in Romania II 234
FLOREA DUMITRESCU, The Economic and Social Evolution in the Romanian Society in the ’60’s –’80’s, XX century 250
ION BAURCEANU, Remembrances from Aiud 264
DICTIONARY OF INSTITUTIONS
ALEXANDRU-MURAD MIRONOV, State Committee for Nuclear Energy 268
FLORIN-RAZVAN MIHAI, The Commission of State Control 271
BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY
FLORI BALANESCU, Adriana Georgescu (1920-2005) 273
CRISTINA DIAC, Manea Mănescu (1916-2009) 277
BOOK REVIEWS
ANA-MARIA CATANUS, On liberty 284
CRISTINA DIAC, Dinu C. Giurescu, spectator of his own destiny: From Sovrom Constructions 6 to Romanian Academy 287
The NIST Agenda 293
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