Comunişti din România în Arhiva Cominternului: Béla Breiner şi activul P.C.d.R. în timpul Marii Terori, 1936-1938
The Communists from Romania in the Comintern Archives: Béla Breiner and the members of the Communist Party of Romania during the Great Terror, 1936-1938

Summary/Abstract: Béla Breiner was one of the leaders of the Communist Party of Romania during interwar. A volunteer in the Hungarian Red Army during 1918-1919, Béla Breiner was active in Romania, where he became a member of the CPR in September 1923. Following his activity in the communist movement, Breiner was imprisoned for eight years (1926-1931, 1932-1935). In December 1931, at the V-th Congress of the Communist Party of Romania, he was elected member of the Central Committee. From 1937 to his death, in 1940, Béla Breiner was the leader of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, an operative structure of the Communist Party of Romania that acted as a section of the abroad Politburo. This article publishes for the first time several documents from the Comintern Archives in Moscow. The documents were drafted by Béla Breiner during 1935-1938 and they bring a significant contribution to the understanding of the functioning of the Communist Party of Romania during interwar, of its relations to the Comintern, as well as the relations between the members of CPR in the late 1930’s

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