România și perestroika: relațiile româno-sovietice la sfârșitul anilor ’80
Romania and Perestroika: Romanian-Soviet relations at the end of the ’80s

Summary/Abstract: Between 1985 and 1989 the Soviet-Romanian relations have gained new sources of tensions due to the refusal of the leaders in Bucharest to follow Gorbachev's new reformist orientation. Ceausescu's policy faced a fundamental turning point: the transition from political independence and non-interference in internal affairs to that of monitoring and even intervention in internal developments of the Warsaw Treaty Organization countries. Ironically, Nicolae Ceausescu, who since 1965, the year of his coming to power, aimed at distancing from USSR, considered, finally, that the chance of survival of socialism in Eastern Europe might only be the Soviet Union.

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