8th of May 1921- The founding of the Communist Party from Romania (PCdR)- Analysis on the beginning of the communist movement in Romania until 1924
8th of May 1921- The founding of the Communist Party from Romania (PCdR)- Analysis on the beginning of the communist movement in Romania until 1924

Summary/Abstract: At the end of the 19th century and in the first years of the 20th century, as it has already been presented in my studies, the socialist movement was at a critical point. Some socialist intellectuals left PSDMR and joined the “Sincere Liberal Faction”, united with the National Liberal Party. Other socialists came closer to the actions of the Russian socialists that had, in Romania, connections as Constantin Dobrogeanu Gherea, Christian Rakovski and other political activists. The Social Democratic Party from Romania, during the last stage of the World War I, divided between the socialists and the communist followers after the Russian Revolution of February 1917 and the Counterrevolution of October 1917, when the radicals, “the reds” or Bolsheviks seized the power having V.I. Lenin and Lev Trotsky as main leaders. In January 1918, Romania and the Soviet Russia ended the diplomatic relations and a lot of Bolsheviks from Bessarabia entered in Romania. There were some strikes, as that in December 1918 (workers in printing industry). In the summer of 1919, Romanian Army had destroyed the Bolshevik Republic from Budapest, led by Bela Kun, a Bolshevik agent, preventing the communism to get positions in Central and Western Europe. In 1919, the communist uprising of Spartakist Movement in Germany was defeated. In Romania, a group of communists, many of them with other origins (Ukrainian, Polish, Bulgarian, Jew, Hungarian) put the bases of the Communist Party from Romania (PCdR) founded in Bucharest on May 8th 1921. Because of its anti-Romanian attitude, PCdR was declared illegal in April 1924, being in this situation until August 23 1944. In this article we will try to present the activity between 1921 and 1924 because, later, even the communist government of Romania, tried to minimize the importance of the “illegal activity”, because of the assumed Soviet political line.

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