From the Royal Armed Forces to the Popular Armed Forces: Sovietization of the Romanian Military (1948-1955)

Florin Sperlea

After seizing power, the Romanian Communist Party formed new, ideologically committed cadres that were loyal only to the regime. Consulting official documents, chronologies, dairies, memoirs, and confessions, Florin Sperlea builds a comprehensive history of Romania's "popular military," comparing it to similar entities within Europe's "democratic-popular" states.

Related Subjects

• European History

About the Author

Florin Sperlea is a military historian based in Bucharest and a former visiting scholar at Stanford University's Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

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