Grigore Preoteasa. Ascensiunea în structurile comuniste
Grigore Preoteasa’s ascension within the communist structures

Summary/Abstract: The following analysis aims to present Grigore Preoteasa’s ascension from a simple member of the Communist Youth Union, when he acted as an illegalist, to the period during which he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs (1955 – 1957) when he was directly involved in the process by which Romania adhered to the United Nations.The study is particularly interesting because it explores the archives and the political framework of the carreer of a high representative of the communist nomenclature. It also includes his ascension within the ranks of the Romanian Communist Party, while providing an image of the internal structures of the party and the written and unwritten laws that governed the relations between party members. The political friction between Grigore Preoteasa and various party members that emerged when the movement was put together can be a litmus test to measure with accuracy the formation of cleavages and divisions among various factions within the original structure of the Communist Party in Romania.

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