Alexandru Moghioroş (1911-1969)
Alexandru Moghioroş (1911-1969)

Summary/Abstract: This text describes and shortly analyses Alexandru Moghioroș’s biography, one of the most significant communist leaders, as it appears from archival sources recently released by the National Archives of Romania, sources confronted with the secondary literature where Moghioroș’s activity is mentioned. Moghioroș was a militant who devoted himself to the communist credo in his early youth. In interwar, he was prominent within the Youth Communist League-Romanian branch, quality in which he attended some important international events organized by Comintern and K.I.M. (The Communist Youth International). Arrested in 1935 and involved in Ana Pauker’s trial, he was sentenced and served a ten years sentence in different Romanian jails until 1944.During the communist regime, he held some influential position within the Party apparatus. For instance, until his death, he was an almost-permanent member of the Central Committee of the Romanian Workers Party/Romanian Communist Party, and of thePolitical Bureau. He was also one of the Party’s secretaries, and appointed to preside some important commissions, in charge with internal inquires

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