Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy

{{Communist Romania}}

The Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy (Romanian: Academia Ștefan Gheorghiu, in full: Academia de învățămînt social-politic Ștefan Gheorghiu de pe lîngă CC al PCR — roughly, Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy for Socio-Political Education in Relation to the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party) was a university created and used by the Romanian Communist Party (PCR) for training its cadres for executive and agitprop-related functions.Directory of officials of the Socialist Republic of Romania. United States. Central Intelligence Agency, National Foreign Assessment Center (U.S.), United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Directorate of Intelligence{{in lang|ro}} Paula Mihailov Chiciuc, [https://archive.today/20120802192535/http://www.jurnalul.ro/jurnalul-national/universitatea-pcr-12994.htm "Universitatea PCR"], Jurnalul Național, 6 September 2006; accessed April 1, 2012

History

The institution was established as Universitatea Muncitorească a PCR (PCR Workers' University) and began functioning on March 21, 1945, in Bucharest, apparently on Ana Pauker's initiative. Its first leaders were rector Barbu Lăzăreanu, a literature professor, and secretary {{ill|Constantin Ionescu Gulian|ro}}, a Stalinist philosopher. The name Ștefan Gheorghiu was added on February 10, 1946, in memory of an early 20th-century Romanian social-democrat.

Another school with much the same purpose, Școala Superioară de Științe Sociale A. A. Jdanov (A. A. Jdanov Upper School of Social Sciences), was created separately; the two eventually merged.

The Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy was dissolved after the Romanian Revolution of 1989.

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