Alexandru Nicolau
Alexandru Nicolau | |
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Donskoy Cemetery, Moscow | |
Nationality | Romanian, Soviet |
Other names | Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Nikolau |
Alma mater | University of Bucharest University of Paris |
Occupation(s) | Lawyer, socialist activist, communist activist |
Employer(s) | Communist University of the National Minorities of the West Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages |
Political party | Social Democratic Party of Romania Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
Alexandru Nicolau (
Biography
Early life and activity
Nicolau was born in
World War I and Russian Revolution
In 1916, Romania joined World War I on the side of the Entente and imposed an immediate ban on the local socialist movement, which had adopted a militant pacifist stance. Nicolau reacted by publishing in Paris a study highly critical of the Romanian ruling classes, titled The Crime of the Romanian Oligarchy. Returning to Romania later in the war, he was kept under constant surveillance by Siguranța, the secret police.[10] Nicolau was present in Iași during the revolutionary agitation which emerged during the 1917 May Day celebrations and under the impression of the February Revolution. Along the other social-democrats, he supported the position of the PSD leader Christian Rakovsky, who believed the situation in Romania was not ripe for the overthrow of the monarchy.[12][10]
Joining Rakovsky and Bujor, Nicolau left in June 1917 for Russia,
The occupation of Odessa by
Later life and death
Alexandru Nicolau returned to Romania in 1920, however he was soon apprehended by the authorities, and imprisoned in
Nicolau was among the Romanian Communist refugees in Soviet Russia who in 1924 signed a memorandum calling for the creation of a
Arrested on August 14, 1937, during the
He was posthumously rehabilitated on September 15, 1956, through a decision of the Soviet Supreme Court during the De-Stalinisation campaign.[9] In a symbolic gesture, his name was also rehabilitated in Romania during the April 1968 Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party.
Notes
- ^ Cruceanu 1973, p. 131.
- ^ Popescu-Puțuri & Georgescu 1971, pp. 267–268.
- ^ a b c d Liveanu 1967, p. 895.
- ^ Calendarul Muncei 1913, p. 89.
- ^ Popescu-Puțuri & Georgescu 1971, pp. 269–271.
- ^ Petrescu n.d., pp. 245–246.
- ^ Bacalbașa 1936, p. 95.
- ^ Calendarul Muncei 1913, p. 65.
- ^ a b c Memorial.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Popescu-Puțuri & Georgescu 1971, p. 271.
- ^ a b Manusevich et al. 1967, p. 410.
- ^ Matichescu 1967, p. 870.
- ^ Petrescu n.d., pp. 292–293.
- ^ a b Manusevich et al. 1967, p. 67.
- ^ Unc 1967, p. 847.
- ^ Unc 1967, p. 848.
- ^ Manusevich et al. 1967, p. 411.
- ^ Manusevich et al. 1967, p. 412.
- ^ Unc 1967, p. 849.
- ^ Manusevich et al. 1967, pp. 413–414.
- ^ Manusevich et al. 1967, pp. 414–415.
- ^ Manusevich et al. 1967, p. 416.
- ^ Manusevich et al. 1967, p. 418.
- ^ Manusevich et al. 1967, p. 419.
- ^ a b Popescu-Puțuri & Georgescu 1971, p. 272.
- ^ Stănescu 1971, p. 61.
- ^ Galuschenko 2009.
References
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- Bacalbașa, Constantin (1936). Bucureștii de altă dată 1910–1914 [The Bucharest of yesteryear 1910–1914] (in Romanian). Vol. IV (2 ed.). Bucharest: OCLC 1079078435.
- Cruceanu, Mihail (1973). De vorbă cu trecutul... [Talking to the past...] (in Romanian). Bucharest: Editura Minerva.
- Galuschenko, Oleg Sergeevich (2009). Молдаване или Румыны? Взаимоотношения между бессарабцами и румынскими политэмигрантами накануне создания Молдавской АССР [Moldavians or Romanians? Interrelations between the Bessarabians and the Romanian political emigrants before the creation of the Moldavian ASSR]. Приднестровье XXI (in Russian) (20). Tiraspol: Tiraspol School of Political Studies. Archived from the original on 21 February 2014. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
- Liveanu, V. (1967). "Pravda despre mișcarea revoluționară din România (1917–1921)" [Pravda about the revolutionary movement in Romania (1917–1921)]. Studii. Revistă de istorie (in Romanian). XX (5). Bucharest: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România: 891–904. ISSN 0567-6304.
- Manusevich, A. Ya.; Birman, M. A.; Klevanskiy, A. Kh.; et al., eds. (1967). Интернационалисты: Трудящиеся зарубежных стран — Участники борьбы за власть советов [The internationalists. Workers of the foreign countries — participants in the battle for Soviet power] (in Russian). Moscow: Nauka.
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- Popescu-Puțuri, Ion; Georgescu, Titu, eds. (1971). "Alexandru Nicolau". Purtători de flamuri revoluționare [Revolutionary standard bearers] (in Romanian). Bucharest: Editura Științifică.
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- "Жертвы политического террора в СССР" [Victims of political terror in the USSR] (in Russian). Memorial. Retrieved 3 February 2014.