Cristian Racovski şi teoria degenerării birocratice a socialismului în Uniunea Sovietică
Christian Rakovski and the Theory of Bureaucratic Degeneration of Socialism in the USSR

Summary/Abstract: The article consists of a conference delivered by Academician Florin Constantiniu on February 24, 2009, at the Center of Russian and Soviet Studies within the National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism of the Romanian Academy. The main theme of the conference was the theory of bureaucratic degeneration of Socialism in the Soviet Union on which Rakovsky wrote in a letter addressed to another leader of the Trotskyist opposition, G.B. Valentinov. On this occasion, Florin Constantiniu discussed the origins of Rakovsky’s theory, its main principles, the context in which it had been formulated and its validity not only for the Soviet Union but for the East European countries. The article comprises also the lecturer’s answers to the questions from the audience at the end of the conference. The text represents a genuine lesson on totalitarianism history as well as the author’s view on the developments in post-communist society.

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