O altă „destalinizare ratată” . Un memoriu al Partidului Comunist Independent, 15 mai 1958
Another failed de-stalinization. A Memorandum of the Independent Communist Party, 15 May 1958

Summary/Abstract: The historiography of the Soviet type communist regimes granted special attention to the repressive dimension of these regimes, which was often associated to the totalitarian terror, whose purpose was the destruction of the old society and all forms of opposition adjacent to it, with the aim to establish a new order. But the dynamics of Stalinist terror did not only targeted the opponents or the class enemies. Just as frequently, the attention of those who were monitoring the perils that could affect the party, focused also onto their own cadres. Communist parties developed organizational structures the purpose of which was the internal surveillance of everything it could turn into a deviation from the rules imposed by Party line, thus becoming a threat. These institutions evolved as tools of control of the sociopolitical body of the Party, often endowed with discretionary powers, as to decide the exclusion from the Party ranks (purges), and even violent later repercussions (repression). The present paper canvasses an important chapter of the Romanian Workers Party’s purge history, by bringing into discussion an yet unknown document – a memorandum of a what seems to be an underground party structure, which entitles itself as the “Central Committee of the Communist Independent Party”.

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