Leonte Tismăneanu

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Leonte Tismăneanu (born Leonid Tisminetski, or Tisminețki; 1913–1981) was a Romanian communist activist and propagandist.

Born into a

Romania during World War II), he worked with Ana Pauker, Leonte Răutu, and Vasile Luca for the Romanian language branch of Radio Moscow, first as a newsreader, then as a writer.[4]

In 1948, Tisminetski and his family were sent to

Marxism-Leninism at the University of Bucharest.[1]

In 1956, Tismăneanu, alongside

anti-communist statements of Paul Goma, a university student who later became a noted dissident and writer; led by Iordan and supervised by the Securitate, the investigation culminated in Goma's expulsion from the faculty and subsequent arrest (Tismăneanu and Florian voted in favor of the former, but against the latter).[7]

Between 1958 and 1960, Tismăneanu was investigated for "revisionist-type deviationism" (deviaţionism de tip revizionist), the inquiry ending with him being expelled from the Party in 1960.[6] Allowed to rejoin in 1964, after the death of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, he subsequently worked as a writer for Editura Meridiane.[1]

He was married to Hermina Marcusohn, herself a Spanish Civil War veteran who had trained as a physician, held a professorship at Bucharest's Medical School, and briefly worked as a party activist.

Bolshevik offspring".[9]

The Final Report of the Presidential Commission lists Leonte Tismăneanu among the group of prominent party activists responsible with indoctrination.[10]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Badin
  2. ^ Stalinism pentru eternitate, p.38
  3. ^ Goşu; Stalinism pentru eternitate, p.38
  4. ^ "Timbre roşii…"
  5. ^ Stalinism pentru eternitate, p.320
  6. ^ a b Stalinism pentru eternitate p.333
  7. ^ Rădulescu
  8. ^ Goşu; Stalinism pentru eternitate p. 320
  9. ^ Goşu
  10. ^ Final Report, p.631

References

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