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Caietele CNSAS, Nr. 1 (3) / 2009 Acest volum a fost publicat cu sprijinul financiar al FUNDAŢIEI KONRAD ADENAUER Caietele CNSAS Revistă semestrială editată de Consiliul Naţional pentru Studierea Arhivelor Securităţii Anul II, nr. 1(3)/2009 Editura CNSAS Bucureşti 2010 Consiliul Naţional pentru Studierea Arhivelor Securităţii Bucureşti, str. Matei Basarab, nr. 55-57, sector 3 www.cnsas.ro Caietele CNSAS, anul II, nr. 1(3)/2009 ISSN:1844-6590 Consiliu ştiinţific: Gail Kligman (University of California - Los Angeles) Katherine Verdery (The City University of New York), Dennis Deletant (University College of London), Vladimir Tismăneanu (University of Maryland), Łukasz Kamiński (Institute of National Remembrance – Warsaw) Dragoş Petrescu, Virgiliu- Leon Ţârău Colegiul de redacţie: Florian Banu, George Enache, Silviu B. Moldovan, Liviu Ţăranu Coperta: Cătălin Mândrilă Machetare computerizată: George Enache Corectură text în limba engleză: Cipriana Moisa, Ada Tudorică Editura Consiliului Naţional pentru Studierea Arhivelor Securităţii e-mail: [email protected] CUPRINS I. Aparatul represiv comunist: instituţii, cadre, obiective Luminiţa Banu, Florian Banu, Alexandru Drăghici la ora naţionalismului – popularizarea „Declaraţiei din aprilie 1964” în structurile MAI..........................................................................7 Nicolae Ioniţă, Politica de cadre în Securitate. Schimbarea cadrelor medii de conducere (1958-1967).............................................................................................................................23 Adrian Nicolae Petcu, Denisa Bodeanu, Contribuţii la întocmirea unui dicţionar al ofiţerilor de securitate...........................................................................................................................55 Ciprian Cîrnîială, În miezul prefacerilor. Ubicuitatea şi obiectul muncii Miliţiei R.P.R. în anii ’60………………………………………………………………………………………………………71 Nicoleta Ionescu-Gură, Serviciul Dislocări şi Domicilii Obligatorii (S.D.D.O.) din cadrul Ministerului Afacerilor Interne…………………………………………………………………...…..87 Nicolae Ioniţă, Fişe biografice ale şefilor de direcţii centrale din Securitate, în anii ’60……103 Liviu Pleşa, Cadrele de conducere din Direcţia Regională de Securitate Cluj. Date biografice (I)...........................................................................................................................................119 II. Sub lupa Securităţii Luminiţa Banu, Petre Ţuţea şi poliţia politică - de la arestare la avertizare.........................133 Adrian Nicolae Petcu, Preoţii basarabeni şi bucovineni în atenţia Securităţii.....................147 W. Totok, Georg Herbstritt, Dublă supraveghere. Scriitori germani din România în documente ale Stasi şi ale Securităţii ...................................................................................179 III. Sistemul totalitar din România: aspecte ideologice, demografice şi economice Liviu Marius Bejenaru, Relaţia dintre creşterea demografică şi dezvoltarea economică în timpul regimului comunist. Între propaganda oficială şi realităţile cotidiene...........…….……197 Valentin Vasile, Disfuncţionalităţi ale sectorului alimentar românesc în perioada 1944- 1954.......................................................................................................................................217 3 IV. Recenzii. Note de lectură Dr. Constantin Moraru, Politica externă a României (1958-1964), Bucureşti, Editura Enciclopedică, 2008, 320 p. (Florian Banu).........................................................................249 George Pavel Vuza, Însemnările unui procuror sau Procuratura văzută din interior, Cuvânt înainte de Dan Tudor Vuza, postfaţă de Dinu C. Giurescu, Bucureşti, Editura Vremea, 2008, (Iuliu Crăcană)......................................................................................................................255 Mihai Şerban, De la Serviciul Special de Informaţii la Securitatea Poporului (1944-1948), Bucureşti, Editura Militară, 2009, 207 p. (Florian Banu)………………………………………281 Mihaela Grancea, Reprezentări ale morţii în România epocii comuniste. Trei studii de antropologie funerară, prefaţă Zoe Petre, Cluj-Napoca, Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă, 2007, 178 p. (Luminiţa Banu).........................................................………………………………………….295 Tim Weiner, CIA – o istorie secretă, traducere Raluca Puşdercă, Bucureşti, Litera Internaţional, 2009, 482 p. (Florian Banu)................................................................……….298 V. Cercetarea ştiinţifică şi valorificarea fondurilor arhivistice ale C.N.S.A.S. prin manifestări ştiinţifice şi expoziţii Zilele „Mitropolit Visarion Puiu – 130 de ani de la naştere”, Roman-Paşcani-Mănăstirea Neamţ 26-28 februarie 2009 (Adrian Nicolae Petcu)..........................................................305 Simpozionul ştiinţific Generalul Nicolae Rădescu, prizonierul istoriei (Râmnicu Vâlcea – Călimăneşti, 26-27 martie 2009) (Silviu B. Moldovan)………………………………………..306 Conferinţa internaţională „Resistance and Opposition against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia and Central Europe”, Praga, The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regime, 15-16 aprilie 2009 (Florian Banu).......................................…………………..…….307 Conferinţa „Bisericile in comunism", Sibiu, 13-15 mai 2009 (George Enache)……….…….309 Simpozionul ştiinţific internaţional „Sfârşitul regimurilor comuniste. Cauze, desfăşurare şi consecinţe”, 25-28 iunie 2009, Făgăraş – Sâmbăta de Sus. (Luminiţa Banu)..........………310 VI. Abrevieri...................................................................……………………………………….313 VII. Lista autorilor................................................................................................................315 4 SUMMARY I. THE COMMUNIST REPRESSIVE SYSTEM: INSTITUTIONS, OFFICERS AND OBJECTIVES Luminiţa Banu, Florian Banu, Alexandru Drăghici on the Nationalism Moment. Disseminating the “Declaration from April 1964” inside the structures of the Ministry of Interior……………………………………………………………………………………………….….7 Nicolae Ioniţă, Personnel Policy within the Securitate. Changing mid-level Leadership (1958 – 1967)........................................................................................................23 Adrian Nicolae Petcu, Denisa Bodeanu, Contributions to the Dictionary of Securitate Officers (Cult-Sect Issue)……………………………………………………………….55 Ciprian Cîrnîială, In the middle of Transformation. The Omnipresence and the purposes of the R.P.R.’s Militia during 60’s.......................................................................…..71 Nicoleta Ionescu-Gură, Department for Dislocations and Binding Domiciles (D.D.B.D.) within the Ministry of Interior…………………………………………………………..87 Nicolae Ioniţă Biographical Files of the Securitate Central Department Leaders, in the 60‘s………………………………………………………………………………………………103 Liviu Pleşa, The Leadership within the Securitate Regional Directorate from Cluj – Biographical Data (I)…………………………………………………………………………….…119 II. UNDER SECURITATE’S STRICT SURVEILANCE Luminiţa Banu, Petre Ţuţea and the Political Police - from Arrest to Warning …..133 Adrian Nicolae Petcu, Priests from Bessarabia and Bukovina under the surveillance of Securitate……………………………………………………………………….…147 W. Totok, Georg Herbstritt, Dual Supervision. German Writers from Romania in Stasi and Securitate Files………………………………………………………………………....178 5 III. THE TOTALITARIAN SYSTEM FROM ROMANIA: ECONOMIC, DEMOGRAPHIC AND IDEOLOGICAL ASPECTS Liviu Marius Bejenaru, The Relation Between the Demographic Growth and the Economic Development during the Communist Regime. Between the Official Propaganda and Everyday Reality..................................................................................…..............................197 Valentin Vasile, Failures in the Romanian Food Sector during 1944-1954……….217 IV. REVIEWS. READING NOTES…………………………………………………………..……249 V. THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND THE CAPITALIZATION OF C.N.S.A.S. ARCHIVE FUNDS THROUGH SCIENTIFIC EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS……………………………305 VI. ABBREVIATION LIST ....................................................................................................313 VII. AUTHORS’ LIST.............................................................................................................315 6 I. APARATUL REPRESIV COMUNIST: INSTITUŢII, CADRE, OBIECTIVE Luminiţa BANU Florian BANU ALEXANDRU DRĂGHICI LA ORA NAŢIONALISMULUI. POPULARIZAREA „DECLARAŢIEI DIN APRILIE 1964” ÎN STRUCTURILE M.A.I. ALEXANDRU DRĂGHICI ON THE NATIONALISM MOMENT. DISSEMINATING THE “DECLARATION FROM APRIL 1964” INSIDE THE STRUCTURES OF THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR Our essay intends to make a short review on the political career of the most powerful minister from the Dej era. From loyalty towards internationalist aims to nationalist attitudes, the evolution of the political man Alexandru Drăghici was a really fascinating one. The old and good friend with Gheorghiu-Dej from the jail period, Drăghici came into the public functions earlier, in the spring of 1945. Step by step, protected by Dej, he followed an ascendant path and in August 1948 became chief of one essential section within the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party – The Political and Administrative Section. From this position, Drăghici was a valuable tool for Dej in his actions in order to consolidate personal political power. Starting from December 1950, he was chief of the Political Directorate in the Ministry of Interior and, at the same time, vice-minister of Interior. In May 1952 he became
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