Romanian Communist Party

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The Romanian Communist Party was the ruling Marxist-Leninist political organization that controlled Romania as a one-party socialist state during the Cold War.

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instanceOf communist party
political party
ruling party
abbreviation PCR
alsoKnownAs Romanian Communist Party
surface form: Partidul Comunist Român
banned 1924
bannedBy post-1989 Romanian authorities
cameToEndWith Revolutions of 1989
surface form: Romanian Revolution of 1989
cameToPowerDuring post–World War II Soviet occupation of Romania
controlledOrganization Great National Assembly
Romanian Armed Forces
Romanian media
Securitate
country Romania
dissolved 1989
economicPolicy collectivization of agriculture
planned economy
state ownership of means of production
founded 1921
generalSecretary Elena Ceaușescu
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
Nicolae Ceaușescu
governedDuring Cold War
governingDoctrine democratic centralism
headquartersLocation Bucharest
ideology Marxism–Leninism
internationalAffiliation Cominform
Comintern
surface form: Communist International (historical influence)
leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej
Nicolae Ceaușescu
leaderTitle General Secretary of the Communist Party
surface form: General Secretary
legalized 1944
massOrganization General Union of Trade Unions
Union of Communist Youth
surface form: Union of Working Youth
mergedInto Front of National Salvation
officialLanguage Romanian
opposedBy Romanian Revolution protesters
Romanian anti-communist dissidents
partyNewspaper Scînteia
periodInPowerEnd 1989
periodInPowerStart 1947
politicalPosition far-left
precededBy Social Democratic Party of Romania
securityApparatus Securitate
stateIdeology national communism (later period)
proletarian internationalism
stateStructure one-party socialist state
womenWing National Council of Women
youthWing Union of Communist Youth

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President of the National Council for Science and Technology reportsTo Romanian Communist Party
this entity surface form: Romanian Communist Party leadership
Elena Petrescu memberOf Romanian Communist Party
subject surface form: Elena Ceaușescu
Council of Ministers subordinateTo Romanian Communist Party
subject surface form: Council of Ministers of the Socialist Republic of Romania
Council of Ministers controlledBy Romanian Communist Party
subject surface form: Council of Ministers of the Socialist Republic of Romania
this entity surface form: Romanian Communist Party leadership
Károly Király memberOf Romanian Communist Party