The Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy (

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: ''Academia Ștefan Gheorghiu'', in full: ''Academia de învățămînt social-politic Ștefan Gheorghiu de pe lîngă CC al PCR'' — roughly, ''Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy for Socio-

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Education in Relation to the Central Committee of the

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'') was a university created and used by the Romanian Communist Party (PCR) for training its cadres for executive and

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-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 Paula Mihailov Chiciuc
"Universitatea PCR"

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, 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

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, apparently on

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's initiative. Its first leaders were rector

Barbu Lăzăreanu Barbu Lăzăreanu (born Avram Lazarovici,Valentin Chifor, "Lăzăreanu Barbu", in Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române'', Vol. I, pp. 839–840. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004. or Bercu Leizerovici,Constantin Ior ...

, a literature professor, and secretary , a

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philosopher. The name '' Ștefan Gheorghiu'' was added on February 10, 1946, in memory of an early 20th-century Romanian

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. Another school with much the same purpose, ''Școala Superioară de Științe Sociale A. A. Jdanov'' ('' A. A. Jdanov Upper School of

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''), was created separately; the two eventually merged. The Ștefan Gheorghiu Academy was dissolved after the

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of 1989.

References

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