Proletarian dictatorship in a Romanian version (I)

Abstract

Like any totalitarian regime, communism displayed a tendency to be universal. In Romania, a country that saw the implanting of the communist model in the geopolitical context provided by the end of the Second World War, this trend for universality manifested as the objective of ”exceeding the underdevelopment of the country”. Within this process we find one of the sources for the totalitarian and conservative behavior of local communist elites.

Keywords

• totalitarian regime
• Bolshevism
• Romanian communism
• communist elites