THE NATIONAL PEOPLE’S PARTY FROM TULCEA COUNTY (1946-1949)
THE NATIONAL PEOPLE’S PARTY FROM TULCEA COUNTY (1946-1949)

Summary/Abstract: By using the data provided by the archive documents in the custody of the Tulcea County Directorate of National Archives, this article tries to bring to the fore the evolution and dynamics of the National People's Party in Tulcea County. The National People’s Party was set up in early 1946, because of the transformation of the mass organization, the Union of Patriots, into a political party, and in the first months of 1949 it dissolved itself. This political formation was created by the Romanian Communist Party (RCP) to attract to their side those social categories that mainly avoided joining the RCP. The main goals of National People’s Party in Tulcea County were: increasing the number of members, strengthening the Press and Documentation Department, as well as other departments of the organization, improving the collaboration with political formations within the National Democratic Front, organized guidance of peasants to the Ploughmen’s Front, reorganization and control of the activity of local organizations, etc. Therefore, by using research methods as the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the mentioned documentary sources, in this study we want to make a brief foray into the structure and activity of National People’s Party in Tulcea County in the period from the establishment of the party to its self-dissolution.

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