HISTORY AND THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, pages: 21 - 26, 2018

Romania in the 1970s: the Detachment from Moscow and Openness Towards the EEC. Asian Alternatives?

Abstract: Amid the economic setbacks inherited from the interwar period, Romania’s inclusion into the Soviet Bloc triggered major transformations within its economy, marred by war reparations and forced industrialisation, as it has been investigated through qualitative analyses of literature and primary documents. The economic break-up from the URSS marked the evolutions of Romania in the 1960s and enabled it to seek some degree of closeness to China and, on the other hand, to the West, whilst building a particular model of nationalist communism. The fluctuating relations with Far-East countries failed to prevent the collapse of a regime that became obsolete after the hardships of the 1970s and 1980s.