Tribulaţii în cadrul lagărului socialist: întâlnirea de la Ialta (2 august 1971), cu România personaj principal in absentia (un document şi câteva consideraţii)

Lucica IORGA, Lucian LEUŞTEAN

DOI: 10.47743/asui-2025-0024

Abstract: It is not our aim to settle the historiographical dispute regarding the causes that led to the ideological radicalization of the Ceauşescu regime through the adoption of the July 1971 Theses, but rather to bring to light a little-known element in Romanian historiography: the transcript of the meeting of the leaders of the communist bloc, without Romanian participation, held in Crimea and chaired by the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev, on August 2, 1971, just five weeks after Nicolae Ceauşescu’s return from his Asian tour in China, North Korea, Vietnam and Mongolia. Additionally, we also offer some opinions on related topics (Ceauşescu’s visit to China, the Brezhnev Doctrine, Ceauşescu’s intentions, relations within the socialist bloc) from the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. They can provide better context, as they come from a party not directly involved in those relations, but sufficiently well-informed to make substantial assertions.

Keywords: Nicolae Ceauşescu; Doctrina Brejnev; lagărul socialist; Ialta; Tratatul de la Varşovia.