The Romanian Communist Party (PCR) (Romanian: Partidul Comunist Român PCR) was a communist party in Romania. It was founded in 1921 by the pro-Bolshevik wing of the Socialist Party of Romania and lasted until the reactionary forces of the 1989 Gorbachev-backed coup decided to forcefully dissolve and outlaw it. The party ruled in Romania from December 1947 to December 1989.
History[edit | edit source]
Interwar period (1921-1947)[edit | edit source]
Romanian People's Republic (1947-1965)[edit | edit source]
Socialist Republic of Romania (1965-1989)[edit | edit source]
General secretaries of PCR[edit | edit source]
| Nr | Name
Year of birth and death |
Image | Time of rule |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gheorghe Cristescu
1882-1973 |
1921-1924 | |
| 2 | Elek Köblös
1887-1938 |
1924-1927 | |
| 3 | Vitali Holostenco
1900-1937 |
1927-1931 | |
| 4 | Alexander Ștefanski
1897-1937 |
1931-1936 | |
| 5 | Boris Ștefanov | 1936-1940 | |
| 6 | Ștefan Foriș | 1940-1944 | |
| 7 | Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej | 1944-1954 | |
| 8 | Gheorghe Apostol | 1954-1955 | |
| 9 | Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej | 1955-1965 | |
| 10 | Nicolae Ceaușescu | 1965-1989 |
