Colaborarea româno-sovietică în domeniul educației. Studenţii români în URSS (1946-1956)
ROMANIAN-SOVIET COLLABORATION IN EDUCATION. ROMANIAN STUDENTS IN SOVIET UNION (1946−1956)

Summary/Abstract: In this study we aimed to analyze how Romania and the USSR worked in the education field after the Second World War. We have tried to highlight a new approach that refers Romanian-Soviet institutional collaboration, the topic still unexplored in history. We have also integrated in this process within the history of Soviet-Romanian cultural relations, a subject at an early stage of research, yet there is no general works or thematic studies on this topic. With this subject we have initiated analyzing possibilities of a little discussed phenomenon, involving the attempts to formation of new elite in communist Romania referring to the case of Romanian students in the USSR between 1946 and 1956. Using archive documents belonging to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania, we reported on the procedures for selecting and sending the Rumanian youth in the U.S.S.R., about the academic, cultural and political life of Romanian students from Soviet Union and about the destiny of some students from college days and in period in which manifested professionally or politically.

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