Delegation of peasants from Soimus village in audience at Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. Realities of Romanian collectivisation Cover Image

Delegație de țărani din satul Soimuș în audiența la Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. Realități proprii colectivizării românești
Delegation of peasants from Soimus village in audience at Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. Realities of Romanian collectivisation

Author(s): Mihaela Verzea, Mihaela Cristina Verzea
Subject(s): History
Published by: MUZEUL NAȚIONAL DE ISTORIE A ROMÂNIEI
Keywords: Soimuş; 1948; audience; collectivization; Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej; peasants; Romanian agriculture; Romanian Working Party

Summary/Abstract: This article presents some aspects regarding the process of collectivization of Romanian agriculture. This process was started when the communists took over the political power in 1948. Even from the beginning, the main feature of the collectivization was its violent side. Thus we reproduced the text of an extremely suggestive document from this point of view. During an audience at the leader of the Romanian Working Party, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, a group of peasants from Soimuş, Cluj county, described the brutality used to force the people in order to accept their participation in the socialist agricultural structures.

  • Issue Year: 1/2002
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 378-389
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian