„Oblonul de fier”: Percepțiile unui secretar al lui Iuliu Maniu despre începutul Războiului Rece
Behind the "Iron Shutter": A personal Assistant of Iuliu Maniu on the Beginning of the Cold War.

Summary/Abstract: Nicolae Pascu, whose political memoirs are now made public for the first time, was an interesting character: lawyer, state official, journalist, entrepreneur and active member (with quite important political responsibilities) of the National Peasant party (NPP). He wrote several works dealing with the final years of the NPP. Some of the pages of his political memoirs are vivid - even if sometimes astonishingly naïve - descriptions of events and trends belonging to the early stages larger framework, we now call The Cold War: the political activities of the Soviets in Romania; the domestic political struggle between the Soviet-sponsored Romanian communist and their non-totalitarian competitors; the feeble attempts of the West to involve itself in the effort to preserve the political status quo in Romania; the important amount of wishful thinking which can be detected in the behavior of some leaders in the Peasant Party. All these elements, however sketchy, can be regarded as an important historical source, enabling the researcher to better understand the way in which Cold War started in Eastern Europe.

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