„Inchizitorii” partidului, I: Elvira Gaisinschi
„Party investigators”, I: Elvira Gaisinschi

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the biography of an authentic „professional revolutionary” (Elvira Gaisinschi) which activated in higher echelons of the Romanian Communist Party Central Commitee’s Control Commission apparatus, in the first years of the People’s Republic of Romania. Gaisinschi was involved in the investigations of a numerous cases of treasons and collaborations with the bourgeois police by the members of the Romanian Communist Party. Like many others militants from the party’s illegality period, Gaisinschi was formed and educated in an hostile environment for the RCP: clandestine political activities, political detencion, anti-Semitism, chauvinism. Eventually she too fell victim to the internal power struggles whithin the party, being purge and retired after a Plenary of the Romanian Communist Party Central Committee, at which several veterans of the movement were marginalized, or removed from the party.

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