Alexandru Bârlădeanu
Alexandru Bârlădeanu | |
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President of the Senate of Romania | |
In office 18 June 1990 – 16 October 1992 | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Oliviu Gherman |
Vice President of the Council of Ministers | |
In office 3 October 1955 – 27 January 1969 | |
Prime Minister | Chivu Stoica Ion Gheorghe Maurer |
Chairman of the State Planning Committee | |
In office 4 October 1955 – 26 May 1956 | |
Prime Minister | Chivu Stoica |
Preceded by | Miron Constantinescu |
Succeeded by | Gheorghe Gaston Marin |
Minister of Foreign Trade | |
In office 7 October 1948 – 18 May 1954 | |
Prime Minister | Petru Groza Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej |
Succeeded by | Marcel Popescu |
President for the National Scientific Research Council | |
In office 9 December 1967 – 11 December 1968 | |
Prime Minister | Ion Gheorghe Maurer |
Preceded by | Roman Moldovan |
Succeeded by | Nicolae Murguleț |
Personal details | |
Born | Marxian economist | 25 January 1911
Alexandru Bârlădeanu (or Bîrlădeanu; 25 January 1911 – 13 November 1997) was a Romanian Marxian economist and statesman who was prominent during the communist regime until being sidelined in 1968. In his later years, following the collapse of the regime, he served as Senate President.
Biography
Origins and early career
Bârlădeanu was born into a family of teachers in
The June 1940
Years in power
His return to Romania saw him beginning to hold influential positions in economic ministries.
He was a member of the
Banishment and return to public life
He entered into conflict with Elena Ceaușescu as head of the national council for scientific research,[1] which he began heading at the end of 1967,[3] resigning from all his posts in December 1968,[1] although he remained on the central committee and the CPEx until the following August.[3] This forced retirement saw colorless apparatchiks appointed in his stead to supervise scientific and technological research, further solidifying Elena's rise to the apex of political power.[10] With economic experts like him long sidelined, by the late 1970s, the dictator's wife was far more influential than any civil or military official; of her, Bârlădeanu wrote that "hateful vindictiveness, stupidity, nastiness, insensitivity and brazenness" were her "most obvious" negative qualities.[11] In later years, he and Paul Niculescu-Mizil helped create the myth of a "patriotic faction" within the party where a radical break was marked between early Stalinism and post-1960 developments; Bârlădeanu in particular fostered the image of a benign Gheorghiu-Dej in contrast to Ceaușescu.[12] During the two decades after his fall from grace, he ran into trouble with the authorities twice: once in the 1970s for publishing an article in Contemporanul without approval, and once in the 1980s for discussing with Gheorghe Apostol how Ceaușescu might be removed from the leadership. He also encountered difficulties while selling expensive goods, confiscated during the nationalization process, that he had acquired.[2] In March 1989, he was a signatory of the Letter of the Six,[1] terrified of Ceaușescu's approach to the command economy;[13] the regime responded by placing him under house arrest,[3] while accusing him of being a spy and a speculator and removing him from the party.[2]
Following the
His first wife, whom he married in June 1946, was Russian. She was followed by the actress Marcela Rusu, and then by Mihaela, a researcher at the Academy's
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o (in Romanian) Biografiile nomenklaturii Archived 2012-03-05 at the Wayback Machine, at the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile site; accessed April 3, 2012
- ^ a b c d (in Romanian) Lavinia Betea, "Alexandru Bârlădeanu: Spion, speculant, retrograd, degradat cinic și moral", Jurnalul Național, 18 June 2010; accessed April 3, 2012
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z (in Romanian) Dan Drăghia, Biography at the 1990 Mineriad section of the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile site; accessed April 3, 2012
- ^ a b c d e f g Sabin Ivan, Radiografii parlamentare: De vorbă cu Alexandru Bârlădeanu, pp. 149-51, 156. Constanța: Editura Ex Ponto, 1998, 978-973-938512-1
- ^ a b c (in Romanian) Lavinia Betea, "Război între Senat și Guvern: Bârlădeanu versus Petre Roman", Jurnalul Național, 9 February 2011; accessed April 3, 2012
- ^ (in Romanian) Florin Mihai, "Ceaușescu, invidios pe succesul lui Dej" Archived 2012-03-31 at the Wayback Machine, Adevărul, 27 March 2012; accessed April 3, 2012
- ISBN 978-973-50-3089-6
- ISBN 978-9639776630
- ^ (in Romanian) Matei Udrea, "Criza naționalei are un singur precedent: cum a ajuns România să fie desființată", ProSport, April 4, 2011; accessed July 9, 2016
- ISBN 0-88738-311-4
- ISBN 0-8147-3172-4
- ISBN 0-52-023747-1
- ISBN 0-76-560986-X
- ISBN 0-80-144245-1
- ^ (in Romanian) Profile at the Romanian Chamber of Deputies site; accessed April 3, 2012
- ISBN 0-8018-4969-1
- ^ (in Romanian) Lavinia Betea, "Cei din urmă ajunși primii", Jurnalul Național, 22 January 2007; accessed April 4, 2012
- ^ Dobre et al., p. 93
References
- Florica Dobre, Liviu Marius Bejenaru, Clara Cosmineanu-Mareș, Monica Grigore, Alina Ilinca, Oana Ionel, Nicoleta Ionescu-Gură, Elisabeta Neagoe-Pleșa, Liviu Pleșa, Membrii C.C. al P.C.R. (1945–1989). Dicționar. Bucharest: ISBN 973-45-0486-X