Alexandru Dobrogeanu-Gherea: Difference between revisions

'''Alexandru Dobrogeanu-Gherea''' or '''Alexandru Gherea''' (rendered in [[Russian language|Russian]] as ''Александр Доброджану-Геря'' or ''Доброжану-Гере'' - ''Aleksandr Dobrodzhanu-Gerya'' /''Dobrozhanu-Gere''; July 7, 1879, [[PloieştiPloiești]]—November 4, 1937, [[Moscow]], [[Soviet Union]]) was a [[Romania]]n [[communist]] [[Militant (word)|militant]] and son of [[socialist]], [[sociologist]] and [[literary critic]] [[Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea]]. He also used the [[pseudonym]]s of ''G. Alexe'' and ''SaşaSașa''/''Sasha''.

Dobrogeanu-Gherea was one of the Party members who had voted in favor of the transformation of the group into the '''Socialist-Communist Party''' (that soon turned into the [[Romanian Communist Party]]), in May 1921. Thus, Gherea was arrested together with the other Comintern supporters, and confronted with [[terrorist]] [[Max Goldstein]] during the [[Dealul Spirii Trial]] of the next months. He was convicted, but soon released through an [[amnesty]] on June 4, 1922. In the same year, he was chosen a member of the Overseeing Committee and an [[Agriculture|agrarian]] commission at the new Party's 2nd Congress in PloieştiPloiești. He was a member of the Central Committee during the preparations for the 3rd Congress in [[Vienna]], and as such occupied a central position when the Party was outlawed in 1924 (although he probably never was the [[general secretary]], as some sources claim). Arrested in December, he was released on [[probation]] in 1925, using the circumstances to make his escape to the Soviet Union, being sentenced ''[[trial in absentia|in absentia]]'' to ten years in prison.

In April 1968, [[Nicolae CeauşescuCeaușescu]]'s [[regime]] chose to investigate and exonerate most of the former Party members to have died in the period, Dobrogeanu-Gherea included. A similar measure had been taken inside the Soviet state in 1956, during [[Nikita Khrushchev]]'s process of [[de-Stalinization]].