A nép szolgálatában? Nicolae Ceaușescu, a „bölcs vezető”
In the Service of the People? Nicolae Ceaușescu, the “Wise Leader”

Summary/Abstract: Nicolae Ceaușescu was Romania’s primary leader for almost a quarter century. He established a dictatorial, neo-Stalinist regime, striving for total control over society. He built an excessive cult of personality around himself and aimed to implement a “dynastic” communism akin to that of North Korea. He staunchly rejected all internal reform efforts while pursuing a “separate path” in foreign policy within the Eastern Bloc. During the 1989 anti-communist revolution in Romania, he was stripped of his power and subsequently executed. How did the former shoemaker’s apprentice become a communist revolutionary? To what extent was his life path determined by his inherent, childhood, and adolescent personality traits, what was his family background, and how did he undergo the process of socialization? How did he ascend to the pinnacle of power? What do we know about his long reign and subsequent ignominious downfall? In my study, I primarily seek to answer these questions.

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