Size: 20.5x15cm./8×5.9inch.
Weight: 796gr./28oz.
Pages: 679
Year: 1959
 
Book made in Romania, 1959, in Bucharest. The book contains articles and speeches from Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej in the period of December 1955 – July 1959.
Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (1901-1965) was a Romanian politician and electrician. He was the first Communist leader of Romania from 1947 to 1965, serving as first secretary of the Romanian Communist Party (ultimately “Romanian Workers’ Party”, PMR) from 1944 to 1954 and from 1955 to 1965, and as the first Communist Prime Minister of Romania from 1952 to 1955. Born in Bârlad (1901), Gheorghiu-Dej was involved in the communist movement’s activities from the early 1930s. Upon the outbreak of World War II in Europe, he was imprisoned by Ion Antonescu’s regime, and escaped in August 1944.
After the forces of King Michael ousted Antonescu and had him arrested for war crimes, Gheorghiu-Dej together with prime-minister Petru Groza pressured the King into abdicating in December 1947.
Under his rule, Romania was considered one of the Soviet Union’s most loyal satellite states, though Gheorghiu-Dej was partially unnerved by the rapid de-Stalinization policy initiated by Nikita Khrushchev at the end of the 1950s. Gheorghiu-Dej stepped up measures that greatly increased trade relations between Romania and the Western countries. He died of lung cancer in March 1965. His once protégé Nicolae Ceaușescu succeeded him as General Secretary.