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Revision as of 15:41, 3 January 2007 by Dahn (talk | contribs) (rv - I have given ample reasons on the talk page, whereas this user only argues for some of the changes he keeps pushing,without accounting for his actions)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Leonte Tismăneanu (born Leonid Tisminetski; 1913-1981) was a Romanian and Soviet communist activist.
Born into a Jewish family in Soroca, Bessarabia, Russian Empire (now in Moldova), he fought in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, losing his right arm at the age of 24. In 1939, Tisminetski left for the Soviet Union, where he became a student of the Moscow State Linguistic University. After the start of Operation Barbarossa, in which Romania took part (see Romania during World War II), he worked with Ana Pauker, Leonte Răutu, and Vasile Luca for the Romanian language branch of Radio Moscow, first as a newsreader, then as a writer.
In 1948, Tisminetski and his family were sent to Soviet-occupied Romania, where he changed his name in 1949 to Leonte Tismăneanu, at the request of the Romanian Communist Party. 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-Leninism 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 noted 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 who had trained as a physician and held a Professorship 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 indicated his mistrust in the latter's ability to exercise impartial judgment, calling him "a Bolshevik offspring" growing up inside the nomenklatura, and indicating his belief that Leonte Tismăneanu was "one of the most important and ferocious agents of Communism and Sovietism in martyring our country".
Notes
- Badin
- Gosu
- "Timbre roşii…"
- Stalinism pentru eternitate p.320
- Stalinism pentru eternitate p.333
- Badin
- Rădulescu
- Stalinism pentru eternitate p.333
- Badin
- Gosu; Stalinism pentru eternitate p.320
- Goma
- Goma
- Goma
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