România privită de la Moscova: documente sovietice din martie 1989
Romania seen from Moscow: Soviet documents drafted in March 1989

Summary/Abstract: The document we publish was drafted by the researchers of the Institute of socialist economy of the USSR’ Academy of Sciences and contains a critic analysis of the political and economic crisis in Romania and of the Romanian-Soviet relations in spring 1989. The document addressed to the highest political Soviet leaders was thoroughly documented and revealed the state of profound crisis in Romania, the errors in Ceauşescu’s economic policy and the dramatic drop in living standards of the population. Several possible scenarios of Romania's evolution in the first part of the 1990’s and the development of political and economic bilateral relations were envisaged. In the draft of the Russian researchers, there were several unusual recommendations, such as the appeal to isolate the Romanian leader, which proved that Ceauşescu had lost the support of Moscow.

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