Putere și politică în România lui Nicolae Ceaușescu Reabilitările din aprilie 1968
Power and Policy in Ceaușescu ’s Romania

Summary/Abstract: This article belongs with the set of documents originating in the archives of Radio Free Europe and currently in the custody of the Open Society Archives in Budapest. To Nicolae Ceaușescu August 1968 represented the top of his political path and a justification to his foreign policy in the years to come. The analysts of the Free Europe Radio station succeed in discovering and emphasizing a possible link between the events following the death of Gheorghiu-Dej and the so-called policy of independence toward Moscow practiced by the last Communist leader of Romania. The documents are focusing mainly on the Central Committee Plenum of April 1968 and the political rehabilitation of that moment. These acts - the revival of Lucretiu Pătrășcanu, Ștefan Pătrășcanu etc. - were considerably link to the removal of those involved in the purges.

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