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- Title
GUILTY AS CHARGED: THE FAILURE OF ROMANIAN FACTION LEADERS IN 1956.
- Authors
GRANVILLE, Johanna
- Abstract
The article discusses the reasons to the failure of the attempted coup against the Romanian Stalinist leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej in 1956 by anti-Stalinist faction leaders. Stalin's death was followed by anti-Stalinist purges and the communist bloc knew political upheaval with many of the Stalinist leaders were replaced or killed but Dej stayed in power. The author argues the Romanian exception was mostly due to Dej' s opponents political opportunism as it appears in the recently translated to English minutes of the Politburo meetings of that period. Topics covered are the Hungarian Revolution, Khrushchev' s implication and Moscow' s lack of support to the the Romanians factions leader and Dej' s opponents political past.
- Subjects
ROMANIA; HUNGARY; GHEORGHIU-Dej, Gheorghe; ROMANIAN history, 1944-1989; HUNGARIAN Revolution, 1956; OPPORTUNISM (Political science); COMMUNIST party purges; COUPS d'etat; KHRUSHCHEV, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971; LOCAL government; COMMUNIST countries; PRACTICAL politics
- Publication
Balkan Studies / Études Balkaniques, 2010, Vol 46, Issue 3, p31
- ISSN
0324-1645
- Publication type
Article