O analiză comparativă a perspectivelor occidentală, sovietică și comunistă locală referitoare la procesul de sovietizare a României, 1944-1947
A comparative analyse of the Western, Soviet and local communist perspectives regarding the sovietization of Romania, 1944-1947

Summary/Abstract: This article investigates, from a comparative perspective, how the United States and Great Britain, the Soviet Union and the Romanian Communist Party (RCP) related to the tumultuous and impredictible political interval experienced by Romanian between 1944 and 1947. It starts with a brief chronology of the main events of the period, then it advances to the way in which Washington’s representatives within the Allied Control Commission approached the situation, continues with the Soviet representation of this troublesome interregnum and, finally, it ends with an analysis of the opportunities and of the dangers the local communist strategy was confronted with and eventually managed to overcome according to the Soviet stakes in the matter and its own resources and interests. The major conclusion of this endeavor ist that Romania’s sovietization process was definitely a sinous, lacunary, frustrating and ultimately imprevisible one, both for the Western powers, the Soviet Union and the RCP.

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