21 august 1968 – Apoteoza lui Ceausescu by Lavinia Betea

Regarding Romania's position in the Six Days War, see: Yaacov Ro'i, The Soviet Union and the June 1967 Six Day War (Stanford University Press, 2008), 195.Ĩ Jaromír Navrátil, ed., The Prague Spring 68: a national security archive documents reader (Budapest: Central European University Press, 1998), 64.ĩ Dennis Deletant, ‘Taunting the Bear: Romania and the Warsaw Pact, 1963–1989, Cold War History 7:4 (2007): 499. Biskupski, Piotr Stefan Wandycz (University Rochester Press, 2003), 236. About the Sino-Soviet split, see: Elizabeth Wishnick, Mending fences: the evolution of Moscow's China policy, from Brezhnev to Yeltsin (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001), 30.ħ Douglas Selvage, ‘Poland, the GDR, and the Ulbricht Doctrine’, in Ideology, politics, and diplomacy in East Central Europe, eds. Memorii, vol II Bucureşti, Moscova, Praga, Bologna (Bucureşti: Editura Democraţia, 2003), 13. See: Paul Niculescu-Mizil, O istorie trăită.

For the original text of the Declaration, see: Declaraţie cu privire la poziţia Partidului Muncitoresc Român în problemele mişcării comuniste şi muncitoreşti internaţionale adoptată de Plenara lărgită a CC al PMR din aprilie 1964 (Bucureşti: Editura Politică, 1964).Ħ Former CC member Paul Niculescu-Mizil clearly stated in his memoirs that Ceauşescu's policies were only a continuation of his predecessor's. Lettre Internationale 64 (2008).ģ Ghiţă Ionescu, The reluctant ally: a study of Communist neo-colonialism (Ampersand, 1965), 8.Ĥ Vladimir Tismăneanu, Fantoma lui Gheorghiu-Dej (Bucureşti: Editura Humanitas, 2008), 138.ĥ Vladimir Tismăneanu, Stalinism revisited: the establishment of communist regimes in East-Central Europe (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2010), 420. 1 Mihnea Berindei, ‘Ceauşescu şi discursul din 21 august 1968’.

21 august 1968 – Apoteoza lui Ceausescu by Lavinia Betea