The Romanian literacy campaign was started by the

Romanian Communist Party The Romanian Communist Party ( ro, Partidul Comunist Român, , PCR) was a communist party in Romania. The successor to the pro-Bolshevik wing of the Socialist Party of Romania, it gave ideological endorsement to a communist revolution that woul ...

government through the Education Law of 1948 and nearly eliminated illiteracy in Romania within six years. Throughout the first half of the 20th century, Romania had one of the largest illiteracy rates in Europe. In the 1930s, 43% of the adults were illiterateMatei Cazacu, ''România Interbelică'', , p.46 and in October 1945, Romania still had 4.2 million illiterate adults (1.9 million men and 2.3 million women).

Silviu Brucan Silviu Brucan (born Saul Bruckner; 18 January 1916 – 14 September 2006) was a Romanian Communist politician. He became a critic of the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu. After the Romanian Revolution, Brucan became a political analyst. Ear ...

, ''The Wasted Generation: Memoirs of the Romanian Journey from Capitalism to Socialism and Back'', Westview Press, 1993, p. 80 The campaign, which was done "like a military offensive" and within it, participated volunteers, including university professors, members of the academia and scientists, who inaugurated schools in the villages. It was aimed both at the children who abandoned or didn't attend school and at adults (14-55 years old), who, following one or two years of studies, they'd get a diploma equivalent to the 4 years of

primary school A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary e ...

."In doi ani, din analfabet puteai ajunge student"
''Jurnalul Naţional'', September 19, 2007

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{{reflist Socialist Republic of Romania Literacy Education in Romania

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