Ceaușescu’s National-Communist Populist Turn of the 1970s
A Failed Charisma
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6141273 |
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| Authors | Traian Sandu (0000-0003-4936-6698, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Pages | 57-73 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Connexe les espaces postcommunistes en question(s (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2406-5749 • E-ISSN: 2673-2750 |
| Publisher | Universite de Geneve (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.5077/journals/connexe.2018.e163 |
| OpenAlex | W3101640010 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Ceaușescu’s name is linked to his Promethean attempt to secure Romania’s independence from the Soviet tutelary power and to build a modern industrial state out of the agricultural and industrial Romania modernised during the 1950s following the Stalinist model. This international and social challenge was implemented through the mobilisation of nationalist ideology and the strengthening of the relation between the leader and his people. To attract the masses, Ceaușescu’s charisma did not refer to any objective and inner quality of the leader but to his capacity to embody and manipulate the aspirations of large part of society thanks to a vast housing and industrialization program and a call to nationalism. Even if this populist policy eventually failed in 1989, it consolidated the regime for almost 30 years
Charisma · Communism · Ideology · Independence (probability theory · Industrialisation · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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