Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy

Socialist Republic of Romania
Part of a series on the

Organizations Romanian Communist Party Securitate Union of Communist Youth Great National Assembly State Council Patriotic Guards Pioneers Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy Orthodox Church Scînteia Comturist
Leaders Petru Groza Ana Pauker Ion Gheorghe Maurer Chivu Stoica Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej Nicolae Ceaușescu
Ideology National Communism July Theses Protochronism Ceaușescu's cult of personality
Policies Collectivization Nationalization Literacy campaigns Five-Year Plans De-Stalinization Systematization 1980s austerity
Culture Daciad Cîntarea României Cenaclul Flacăra Obsessive decade
Repression Censorship Danube – Black Sea Canal Reeducation Bărăgan deportations Tămădău Affair Pitești prison Sighet prison
Protests and resistance 1940s-1950s resistance Bucharest student movement of 1956 Dissent under Nicolae Ceaușescu Jiu Valley miners' strike of 1977 SLOMR Brașov Rebellion Romanian Revolution
Relationship with the USSR Soviet occupation (1944–1958) SovRom Bessarabian issue

The Ştefan Gheorghiu Academy (Romanian: Academia Ştefan Gheorghiu, in full: Academia de învăţămînt social-politic Ştefan Gheorghiu de pe lîngă CC al PCR - approx. Ştefan Gheorghiu Academy for Socio-Political Education in Relation to the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party) was a university created and used by the Romanian Communist Party (PCR) for training its cadres for executive and agitprop-related functions.^[1]^[2]

It was established as Universitatea Muncitorească a PCR (PCR Workers' University) and began functioning on March 21, 1945 in Bucharest, apparently on Ana Pauker's initiative. Its first leaders were rector Barbu Lăzăreanu, a literature professor, and secretary Constantin Ionescu-Gulian, a Stalinist philosopher. The name Ştefan Gheorghiu was added on February 10, 1946, in memory of an early 20th-century Romanian social-democrat.

Another school with much the same purpose, Şcoala Superioară de Ştiinţe Sociale A. A. Jdanov (A. A. Jdanov Upper School of Social Sciences), was created separately; the two eventually merged.

The Ştefan Gheorghiu Academy was dissolved after the Romanian Revolution of 1989.

References

↑ Directory of officials of the Socialist Republic of Romania. United States. Central Intelligence Agency, National Foreign Assessment Center (U.S.), United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Directorate of Intelligence
↑ (Romanian) Paula Mihailov Chiciuc, "Universitatea PCR", Jurnalul Naţional, 6 September 2006; accessed April 1, 2012

Coordinates: 44°26′03″N 26°03′26″E / 44.434037°N 26.057285°E / 44.434037; 26.057285

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Wednesday, August 26, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.