Alexandra Sidorovici (6 July 1906 – 25 August 2000) was a

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n politician. A prominent communist, she was one of the first group of women elected to the

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in 1946.

Biography

Sidorovici was born in 1906 in

Constanța Constanța (, ; ; rup, Custantsa; bg, Кюстенджа, Kyustendzha, or bg, Констанца, Konstantsa, label=none; el, Κωνστάντζα, Kōnstántza, or el, Κωνστάντια, Kōnstántia, label=none; tr, Köstence), histo ...

in a well-to-do family. Her brother, Teofil,

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(2006
Dubioasa convertire a lui Silviu Brucan

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served as a cabinet minister in 1940 before committing suicide. One of her ancestors was British, and she spoke perfect English. She married

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, a communist politician and diplomat, with whom she had three children. Brucan later became a critic of

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. During

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, she reportedly was implicated in spying activities on behalf of the

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. In April 1945, Sidorovici was appointed by royal decree public prosecutor at the

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. In this position, which she held until 1946, she participated in trials of the Romanian political and cultural elite. In May and June 1945 she, Constantin Vicol, Ion D. Ioan and

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prosecuted a dozen prominent journalists, including

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, ,

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, and

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. In the 1946 general elections she was among the first group of women elected to the Chamber of Deputies. In early 1948, she worked on the merger of the

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(PCR) with the

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(PSDR), to form the Romanian Workers' Party (PMR). Later that year she was elected to the new

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, and appointed Secretary General of the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum, a role she held until 1958. From 1949 to 1953 she also served as chief prosecutor of . In 1950 she became an associate professor and deputy head of department at the Department of Marxism–Leninism at the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest. Starting in 1955 she accompanied Brucan to the

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, where he was first appointed

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of Romania to the United States, and then ambassador to the

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from 1959 to 1962. She used the experience as the basis of a book that she co-authored with Brucan (a virulent attack on American institutions). In the 1960s and 1970s she was an associate professor at the

Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy The Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy (Romanian: ''Academia Ștefan Gheorghiu'', in full: ''Academia de învăţămînt social-politic Ștefan Gheorghiu de pe lîngă CC al PCR'' - approx. ''Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy for Socio-Political Education in Rel ...

, and in 1971 she was awarded the Order of "August 23". She died in

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in 2000 and was

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at the Vitan-Bârzești Crematorium.

Works

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sidorovici, Alexandra 1906 births People from Constanța Romanian Communist Party politicians Romanian women academics Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania) Members of the Great National Assembly 2000 deaths Academic staff of the Politehnica University of Bucharest 21st-century Romanian women politicians 21st-century Romanian politicians