Partidul comunist și intelectualii din România 1945-1955
The Communist Party and the Intelligentsia in Romania, 1945-1955

Summary/Abstract: The results of the Communist party’s cultural policy in the early 1950s could be defined as an unfortunate combination of what the pro-Moscow and the national groupings wanted. From the pro-Moscow grouping this policy took over the suspicion about what the Romanian thinking could produce and the anti-Western attitude, while from the national grouping it took over a suspicious attitude versus the intelligentsia. The Zhdanov model was transposed mechanically, a strict, humiliating discipline being enforced. Soviet values were seen as the only source of inspiration, and the national thinking school was annihilated. Nothing could be published without permission from the Communist party. The imprisonment and elimination of certain outstanding figures can be considered a failure of the party in its quest for legitimacy. Subsequent development strategies were based on this simple scenario: either everyone complied or the protesters were eliminated.

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