| Revision as of 19:16, 18 December 2006 editDahn (talk | contribs)Autopatrolled, Extended confirmed users, Pending changes reviewers147,797 editsmNo edit summary← Previous edit | Revision as of 19:17, 18 December 2006 edit undoDahn (talk | contribs)Autopatrolled, Extended confirmed users, Pending changes reviewers147,797 edits →ReferencesNext edit → | ||
| Line 22: | Line 22: | ||
| ] | ] | ||
| ] | ] | ||
| ] | |||
| ] | ] | ||
Revision as of 19:17, 18 December 2006
Leonte Tismăneanu (born Leonid Tisminetski; 1913-1981) was a Romanian communist activist and academic.
Born into a Jewish family in Soroca, Bessarabia (now in Moldova). Tisminetski fought for the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, losing his right arm at the age of 24. In 1939, Tisminetski moved to the Soviet Union where he became a student of the Moscow Foreign Languages Institute. He then worked for the Romanian language branch of Radio Moscow, first as a newsreader, then as a writer.
In 1948, Tisminetski moved to Romania, where he changed in 1949 his name to Leonte Tismăneanu, at the request of some high-ranking Romanian Communist Party members. He was named the deputy director of Editura PMR, later Editura Politică, the publishing house of the Communist Party and also held the Chair of Marxism-Leninism at the University of Bucharest.
Between 1958 and 1960, Tismăneanu was investigated for "revisionist-type deviationism" (deviaţionism de tip revizionist), the inquiry ending with him being expelled from the Party in 1960. Allowed to rejoin in 1964, after the death of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, and then worked as a writer for Editura Meridiane.
He was married to the physician Hermina Marcu Sohn, herself a communist activist. Their son, Vladimir Tismăneanu, is a political scientist who headed the Presidential Committee for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania, which presented a report on the crimes of the communist regime in Romania.
Notes
- Badin
- "Timbre roşii..."
- Stalinism pentru eternitate p.320
- Stalinism pentru eternitate p.333
- Badin
- Stalinism pentru eternitate p.333
- Badin
References
- Template:Ro icon Andrei Badin, "Nu cred în legenda celor două Securităţi, una bună şi alta rea", interview with Vladimir Tismăneanu in Adevărul, 10 April 2006
- Vladimir Tismăneanu,
- Template:Ro icon "Timbre roşii cu portretul lui Lenin" in Jurnalul Naţional, September 17, 2005
- Stalinism pentru eternitate, Polirom, Iaşi, 2005 ISBN 973-681-899-3