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Revision as of 14:59, 20 February 2007 by Icar (talk | contribs) (repaired syntax error)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Leonte Tismăneanu (born Leonid Tisminetski; 1913-1981), surnamed Ciungul (The Crippled) was a Soviet and Romanian communist activist, one of the main propagandists of the communist dictatorship in Romania.
Born into a Jewish family in Soroca, Bessarabia, Russian Empire (now in Moldova), Leonte Tismăneanu joined the Romanian Communist Party in the early 1930s. In 1935 he was expelled from the University of Bucharest and emprisoned for communist activities. He later fought in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, losing his right arm at the age of 24. In 1939, he left for the Soviet Union, where he became a student of the Moscow State Linguistic University. Leonte Tismăneanu was a member of the Soviet Communist Party. During World War II, he worked with Ana Pauker, Leonte Răutu, and Vasile Luca for the Romanian language branch of Radio Moscow, first as speaker, then as newswriter.
In 1948, Tisminetski and his family were sent to Soviet-occupied Romania, where he changed his name in 1949 to Leonte Tismăneanu. He was named deputy director of Editura PMR, later Editura Politică, the publishing house of the Communist Party and also held the Chair of Marxism-Stalinism at the University of Bucharest.
In 1955, Tismăneanu, alongside Dean Iorgu Iordan and the academics Mihai Novicov, Alexandru Graur, Ion Coteanu, and Radu Florian, took part in a University inquiry into the anti-communist statements of Paul Goma, a University employee who later became a leading dissident and writer; led by Iordan and supervised by the Securitate, the investigation culminated in Goma's expulsion from the Faculty and subsequent arrest (Tismăneanu and Florian voted in favor of the former, but against the latter).
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, he then worked as a writer for Editura Meridiane.
He was married to Hermina Marcusohn, herself a Spanish Civil War veteran, communist activist and associate professor at Bucharest's Medical School. Their son, Vladimir Tismăneanu, is a political scientist who headed the Presidential Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania, which presented a report on the crimes of the communist regime in Romania.
In an extended polemic with Vladimir Tismăneanu, Goma has stated his mistrust in the latter's ability to exercise impartial judgment on communism issues, calling him "a Bolshevik offspring"Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).
Leonte Tismăneanu is mentioned in this report as one of the main figures in charge of propaganda during the communist dictatorship.
Notes
- "Arhivele Totalitarismului" 1-2/2005, article by Petre Opris
- Report of the Presidential Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania
- Badin
- Stalinism pentru eternitate, p.38
- Opris
- Gosu
- Opris
- "Timbre roşii…"
- Stalinism pentru eternitate p.320
- Stalinism pentru eternitate p.333
- Paul Goma, Template:Ro icon Adrian Popescu, "Paul Goma îi desfiinţează pe membrii "Comisiei Tismăneanu" de cercetare a ororilor comunismului din România", in Gândul, May 9, 2006
- Badin
- Rădulescu
- Stalinism pentru eternitate p.333
- Badin
- Gosu; Stalinism pentru eternitate p.320
References
- Template:Ro icon Andrei Badin, "Nu cred în legenda celor două Securităţi, una bună şi alta rea", interview with Vladimir Tismăneanu in Adevărul, April 10 2006
- Template:Ro icon Paul Goma, Despre Vladimir Tismăneanu - şi nu numai - în 11 puncte
- Template:Ro icon Armand Gosu, "N-am avut de-a face cu Securitatea", interview with Vladimir Tismăneanu in 22, nr.849, June 2006
- Template:Ro icon Mihai Rădulescu, Patimile după Paul Goma
- 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