TRAINING AND ACTIVITIES OF THE RUMANIAN WORKERS PARTY

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CLASSIFICATION CCIC IDEIiTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION
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FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RA
DIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT Political - Party training, activities,
HOW a citation
PUBLISHED Monthly Periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED Bucharest
DATE
PUBLISHED Sep-Dec 1953
LANGUAGE
DATE DIST. /y dun 1954
NO. OF PAGES 10
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS I~ UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
TRAINING AND ACTIVITIES OF THE RUFfANLAN WORi~RS PARTY
(Comment: This report presents information extracted from four
articles appearing in Lupta e asa, theoretical organ of the Ru-
manian Workers Party. The subjects treated are higher party training,
mass political agitation, the party aktiv, and party guidance of
people's councils.
jJ Numbers in parentheses refer to appended sources.]
HIGHER PARTY TRAINING
The Central Committee of the PMR (Partidului Muncitoresc Roman, Rumanian
Workers Party) established the Stefan Gheorghiu Higher Party School and the
A. A. Jdanov Higher School of Social Sciences, directly under the Central Coia-
mittee, to satisfy the growing need for better-prepared party and government
activists. The schools will also provide cadre personnel for the economic
sector, party schools, the party press, school and university social science
departments, and cultural institutions. This was not possible with the former
multiplicity of schools, which were unable to find a sufficient number of well.
qualified instructors (1)
Stefan Gheorghiu High
er Party School
This school offers a 3-year curriculi+m. Its aim is to train party and
state activists for regime and central organs, and also cadre personnel for
the party press, for which purpose it will have a special department of journal-
ism. Candidates must be party members under 40 years of age, and must have at
least a high school education. They must be either activists holding responsible
Positions in the party or state central apparatus; secretaries, chairmen, or
assistant chairmen of regiune party committee sections; first :secretaries of a
city or raion committee; chairmen, deputy chairmen or section chiefs of the
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executive committee of a regiune or city people's council; members of the stuff
of a Bucharest or regiune newspaper; or secretaries of the UThi (Unlunea Tinere-
tul.ul Muncitor, Young Workers Union) or one of its regional committees. Other
party members with sufficient education and good party and social work records
may also be accepted, on an individual basis.
All candidates must pass qualifying examinations on the Rumanian language,
geography, the Constitution, and the fundamental
as expounded in the Short Course in the History ofprinciples
l
theVKPsbof hCandidatesinac-sm-
c-pted for the entrance examinations will be granted 2 month's leave with full
pay for the necessary preparation. Admission to the school is granted by the
Central Committee of the PMR.
The currir:uluzn includes the following subjects: history of the CPSU; Ru-
manian and world history; political economy; dialectical and historical materi-
alism; foreign policy of the USSR, the RPR, (Rumanian People's Republic), and
other people's democracies; contemporary international relations; geographic
and political economy; economic policy of the party and the people's democracies;
party organization; Rumanian law and state organization; Rumanian language and
literature; Russian language; and journalism, for tr,ose specializing in the
subject. The program will include lectures and private study of the Marxist-
Leninist classics, party documents, and manuals.
To graduate, students will be required to pass examinations on the history
of the CPSU, poiitfcai eco:.omy, and dialectical and historical materialism.
Graduation from the Stefan Gheorghiu Higher Party School will be equivalent to
graduation: from state higher educational institutions.
The School will offer a one-year improvement course for secretaries of
radon and city co:jnittees. The program will include the subjects listed above,
except Rumanian language and journalism, but with less thorough treatment.
The co respondeuce course formerly offered by the A. A. Jdanov Higher
School of Social Science has been transferred to the Stefan Gheorghiu Higher
..Party School and will fora one of its departments. It will be a 4-year course
with the same conditions for admittance and the same curricula- as the regular
3-year course, and will be based chiefly on individual study, since eac.]r student
V Ill be supplied conies of the lectures. The student will be requir d to subait
a paper on each of the following subjects: history of the CPSU, dialectical
materialism, historlcu] materialism, and party organization (or journalism, for
students majoring in this subject). Examinations are the same as those of the
3-year course, it:cluuing the state examination. Study and consultation branches
will he established for the benefit of correspondence school students it Bucha-
rest, Cluj, Iasi, Timisoara, and Targul Mures. Each branch will be headed by
a responsible activist of the regiune party committee and will have a salaried
instructor ( 1)
A. A. Jdanov Hither School of Social Sciences
This school will train theoretical cadre lersonnel for central party insti-
tutions, for directing party teaching and scientific work, and for leadership
and teaching in party schools. It will tram social science instructors and
lecturers for institutions of higher education, staff members for ideological
periodicals, and h:ads of propaganda departments of metropolitan papers.
school Caeducatindidateson.must
school
They musty eitmembers her hold under
responsible positions age and in must h har: ty a high
state central apparatus, or be secretaries, chairmen, pordepuLvlchairmenof re-
giune party committees, staff members of a newspaper, teachers at a regiune party
school, directors of Marxist-Leninist night universities, directors of party
cabinets, or propagandists. Social science teachers, and other Communist
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may also be accepted. Candidates n';; holding one of the above-mentioned Positions
but having the necessary qualifications can be accepted only on an
basis. individual
Candidates must pass examinations on the following subjects: Rumanian
language, geography, Rumanian history (as taught in intermediate educational
institutions) and the f:ndamentals of Marxism-Leninism on the Leis of the
Short Course in the History of the VKP(b). Candidates accepted for the examina-
tions will be granted 2 months leave with full pay.
The curriculum of the A. A. Jdanov Higher School of Social Scien.~ is
divided into two parts. In the first 2 years, the following subjects will be
taught: foundations of Marxism-Leninism; political economy; history of the RPR;
world history; history of literature and art; foreign policy of the USSR, the
RPR, and other people's democracies; contemporary international relations;
party organization; political and economic geography; Rumanian language and
literature; and Russian language, In the third year, those desiring to special-
ize in dialectical and historical materialism wi.ll.tudy the history of philos-
oP'ny, logic, and Russian language, in addition to dialectical and historical
materialism. Those desiring to specialize in political economy will study po-
litical economy, the economy and policies of foreign countries, dialectical
and historical materialism, and Russian language. In the first 2 years, studies
will be based on lectures and private reading, and the third year will consist
mainly of private study of Marxist-Leninist classics and PMR documents. At
the end of the 3-year course, students specializing in philosophy must pass a
state examination on the history of the CPSU, dialectical and historical mate-
rialism, history of philosophy, -nd Russian language, and will be required to
submit a paper on either dialectical or historical materialism, according tc
their major. Students specializing in political economy must pass a state
examination on the history of the CPSU, historical and dialectical materialism,
political economy, and Russian language, and will submit it paper on either the
capitalist or the socialist economic system.
The school will have the following departments: history of the CPSU,
world history, political economy, dialectical and historical materialism, party
organization, economic and political geography, international relations, Ru-
manian language and literature, and Russian language. In addition, a 3-year
graduate course will be established to include the following subjects: history
of the CPSU, dialectical and historical materialism and political economy.
This graduate course will be attended by highly qualified cadre personnel who
are grounded in Communist theory.
A one-year course for the centralized training of propagandists will also
be offered. Activists belonging to the propaganda and agitation sections of
regiune, raion, and city party committees will be eligible. The curriculum will
be similar tc that of the Stefan Gheorghi.u Higher Party School, but greater em-
phasis will be given to propaganda and agitation work. and 6 partyTcommittees are tom coeanth
of n the r Central nCommittee
of the PMR. In order to raise the level of party education, regiune party
schools offering one-year courses will be uperated by regiune party committees
which have suitable space and qualified instructors available and which re-
ceive the approval of the Central Committee of the PMR. The prerequisites for
admittance will be similar to those of the Stefan Gheorghiu Higher Party School,
except that activists belonging to the Central party apparatus will not be
eligible, while secretaries of party committees of large ente'rises and of
collective farms will be eligible. Candidates must pass an examination on the
RPR Constitution and on the Rumanian language, and must be authorized by the
regions party committee; to attend the courses.
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Regiune party schools will follow a uniform teaching program and will
provide a short course on those subjects offered by the Stefan Gheor,ihiu
Higher Party School, with the exception of law and state organization. They
will offer courses in Marxist-Leninist fundamentals, party organization,
history and geography, and economic sciences. The final examination will cover
the Short Course in the History of the VKP(1) and party organization.
All regiune party committees will provide 3-month courses for the secre-
taries of primary village and city organizations and for chairmen and secre-
taries of commune people's councils.
The programs of all party schools, whether higher or regiune schools,
must be aprroved by the Central Committee of the PMR. No student may be with-
drawn and assigned to practical work before completion of the course. Party
and state activists taking the short courses will continue to hold their
positions.
It is fully expected that this reorganization of the party school system
will ensure better selection of students and training of party cadre personnel,
and will lead to a higher level of party organizational and political work.
However, this will be achieved only if the party organs keep a close watch on
the schools and provide for the needs of students and faculties-(l)
MASS POLITICAL AGITATION
Experience has shown that the better the working people understand party
policy and the more they are convinced that the policy is right, the harder
they will fight to put it into practice. The 19-20 August Plenum of the
Central Committee of the PMR has once again reminded the party organs of
their duty to strengthen their ties with the masses by personal contact and
to shun bureaucratic isolation
At the present time, the party's main efforts are directed toward the
implementation of the economic program adopted at that meeting, the main em-
phasis being laid on correcting the shortcomings in agriculture and the food
and light industries. This requires considerable improvement of the party
organizations responsible for mobilizing the masses.
Mass political agitation is one of the most effective means of achieving
the desired end, and serves to focus attention on the most burning problems
of the moment. But political and organizational work cannot be separated.
Therefore, the April 1953 decree on improvement of political agitation directed
that every party member perforr agitation, regardless of his special duties.
Many party organizations, among them a number of primary organizations in
Craiova Regiune and Stalin City, have consistently neglected to use the potent
weapon of mass agitation, considering it the exclusive domain of their propa-
ganda and agitation sections. Since April 1953, however, a number of organi-
zations, such as the Hunedoara Regiune Committee, the primary organizations
of the Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej Ironworks, the Simeria Railway Shops, and the
Lupeni mines, have recruited capable agitators and have carefully supervised
their activities. They have encouraged them to employ a variety of effective
methods, such as discussions wit), individuals, cartoons, collective readings,
and broadcasts.
Communist agitation must never cease to work on two levels: it most con-
tribute to the fulfillment of both the party's daily economic and political
tasks, including specific production problems, and its general aim, the build-
ing of socialism.
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During the recent electoral campaign, political agitation work has been
raised to a high level, which the party organizations and agitators must main-
tain. One of their main objectives today must be to organize political agita-
tion at enterprises, in order to discover and utiliz- available internal re-
sources. At the Bucharest Gh Cheorghiu-Dej Clothing Factory the party
organization has persuaded tae workers and technicians to employ technical
and organizational principles for better utilization of small machine toolf
and more rational distribution of machines, which achieves considerable
savings in manpower. This good example has been widely followed, but much
still remains to be done if the drive .a to become a mass movement leading to
increased production of needed goods.
In the villages, mass political agitation must strengthen the alliance
between workers and peasants in order to increase agricultural production and
the exchange of goods between city and country. This will increase the
supply of food for the city population and of raw :materials for industry, and
will greatly improve the standard of livin;; of the peasants.
Political agitators must impress upon the peas.;:ts the importance of the
increased help they are now receiving from the pan.;, the state, and also
from factory workers, and which is given not only to members of colle.tive
and TOZ, but also to small and medium individual farmers. They most be made
conscious of the fact that it is in their own ir.':eres' to repay this .csi,.ta-ce by
prompt fulfillment of delivery obligations to the state and by increasea pra-
duction. The peasants must be persuaded to r.dopt Soviet agricultural techniques
and to take advantage of the recently improved system of contracting for the
delivery of produce and the fattening of livestock.
The Central Committee has warned all subordinate organizations against the
tendency to coneuct their agitation work garishly and spectacularly. White-
washing and blind optimism only lead to relaxation of effort. Efficient agi-
tation must frankly reveal shortcomings, but explain their causes and show
that, they are merely temporary and can be overcome.
Political agitators must promptly disseminate information on domestic and
international events by posting newspapers or reading them collectively, by
contributing articles to wall newspapers, by en`uging in conversations, etc.
They can thus forestall the efforts of the class enemy, who will be quick to
give the news in a distorted form.
Other subjects for political a italiar neglect of public property,
tardiness in dealing with complaints, devi,~c.icn;; from the party line, laziness,
and negligence. Agitators must encourage critici=!n and self-criticism, and
attack all failings and shortcomings fearlessly.
The importance of personal contact in agitation was stressed by the
Central Committee in April 1953. Party orga:dzations like those of Padureti
and Silisteni communes, Costesti Raion, and Potcoava Commune, Slatina Raion,
failed to do any house-to-house canvassing even during the election campaign.
Party organizations must see to it that no sector of the economy is neglected.
Hithert iig'.t shifts in most factories, hou:;ewtves, and people employed in
the cooperative retail trade have net been reached by agitators. Permanent
agitation points must be organized in public squares, trains, streetcars, and
workers hutments on building projects.
In villages where agitation work is weak, regiune committees mu>t send
teams to lend aid. They should be equipped with pamphlets, films, and pic-
tures depicting the achiEvements of prominent local communists.
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The importance of wall newspapers is too often underrated, as was il-
lustrated at a recent wal' newspaper competition. Only 13 of the 100 wall
newspapers published in Moinesti Raion, Bacau Regiune, and only 45 out of 145
from Resita Radon, Timisoara Regiune, were entered in the competition.
Those selected as agitators should be party members or non-members who
have outstanding political qualifications and who have great presti,e among
the masses. They must be kept well-informed of all domestic and foreign po-
litical developments as well as of the problems of the day. The bureaus of
primary organizations, particularly through their secretaries, must give the
agitators regular weekly talks on current events, on topical subjects to be
discussed, and on suitable articles to be read collectively. The party cabinets
can also hel
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supplying material.
By order of the Central Committee, raion and regiune committees are. to
detail activists to organize agitators' seminars and to arrange, at least
once every 2 months, city and raion meetings fcr the briefing of agitators
and wall news
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acquainted with the problems facing party organizations. To the aktiv also
belong propagandists and agitators, and social science faculty members who
are concerned with the Marxist-Leninist education of Cors^anists, the ideologi-
cal purity of the Workers' Party, and the raising of the political level of
youth.
The aktiv is an inva.Luatle support for party organizations in their
struggle to mobilize members and nonmembers for the building of socialism.
The aktiv is the most mature and politically tennered segment of the party,
in which it plays a leading part. With its vast experienc, and close ties
with the masses, it is of great help to all regiane, raion, and city party
organs in carrying out party policy and decisions.
The August 1953 Plenum of the Central Committee specified that one of
the chief tasks of the h giver party organs in to acquire as early as possible
party aktiv of 80,G I-10 to 10C.CCO members.
Meetings of the aktiv provide an opporcunity for party organs to check
the soundness of their decision:; and operating nethc.s. As representatives
of mass party opinion, the activists should be called together every time
a local problem, or a problem connected with the ap_;iication of - government
or :;arty ;?ecision, has to he deb._ted,. The party committee gust deciae for
every meeting which groups of activists are to be invited, including those
cadre perc,onnel who are active in the particular fields which are to be dis-
cuss~l. If the raion L.arty committee has called a meeting to discuss the im-
proviuent of party education, invitations should be sent to the secretaries
of primary organizations, propagandists, instructors, members of the social
science faculties, leaders of party cabinets, heads of universities and
night courses of M^.rxisn-Leni,ism, heads of party schools, and members of the
press. Other activists whose kneeledge and experience might be of value
should also be invited. Alctav meetings are not invested with po'.:ers of
decision, and cannot give instructions to committees or primary organizations.
But their suggestions, criticism, and practical experience should be given
careful consideration.
All example of ti proper procedure was recently provided by the Oradea
Regiune Committee. State farm di:?ecr. rs
la?a,is of ?'I5 political sc^.tions,
the chief of the agricultural section of the regiune eaple's council, the
chiefs of the agricultural sections of raion ;ecple's councils, party organi-
zers and chairmen of collective Pant, secretaries of raion committees, and
other party activists were invited to a n:cc?tir;g to discuss the collective
farm problem. The agenda was circulates .:ell mead of time, and a documented
analysis of the situation was presented by ti,c secretary of the agricultural
section. The regiune committee was severely criticized for having considered
the strengthening of collective ir.rms az c matter concerning only its agri-
cultural section. People's councils ;hicn failed to give them the required
technical and cultural assistance and mRg whici. paid insufficient attention
to mass political work among the neasantl also were criticized. Many valuable
suggestions and criticisms were nade, an,i the decision reached by the aktiv
was finally adopted by the regill:e coc^ittce.
However, in Targu Ocna Raion, where a similar meeting was held, the sec-
retaries of primary organizations were not e-en invited.
Meetings of the aktiv frequently become more meetings for relaying in-
structions or for the fon,nal approval of reports written in very general terms.
An aktiv meeting in which mernoers of the party al-paratus are in the majority
cannon answer the purpose. The party apparatus has its well-defined task,
which must not be confused with the task of' the aktiv. A party organ is in
daily contact with the party ap_p.aratus, which is resi:onsible for checking on
the e;:ecution of party and government decisions and for the selection of
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cadre personnel. The uktiv meeting must provide the opportunity for periodi-
cal meetings between party organs and the aktiv, which translates party and
government decisions directly into fact, and the occasion for the aktiv to
voice its opinion on the work of the party organ.
Equally wrong are the regiune, raion and other committees which, instead
of calling aktiv meetings at which the committee members participate, call
meetings of the full committee together with the aktiv. This procedure leads
to the dilution of the party organ within the aktiv, although the party organ
is the elected body empowered to make decisions and is responsible for the
work of the entire organization.
The problems to be debated at aktiv meetings must be well thought out.
In Baia Mare, Iasi, and Suceava regiunes, meetings have been poorly prepared,
the subjects to be discussed chosen at random, and the agenda insufficiently
publicized in advance.
The uktiv can give valuable help in enforcing decisions. This fact has
been ignored by the Ploesti City Committee, which tries to work exclusively
through the party apparatus. It is also a mistake to use the aktiv as a sort
of shock unit, to be called in emergencies only. It should be a permanent
auxiliary of the committee.
The a;:tiv can also be used to udvantage in the study of problems to be
discussed by party organs and for checking or. the execution of decisions. Its
members have much better opportunities to learn what is going on than the
party apparatus, and can help to remedy many defects.
Finally, the aktiv constitutes the best cadre school for the party,
provided party organizations mu::e constant efforts to attretct new personnel
who are outstanding eco.romic and administrative leaders, innovators and
leaders in production, scientists, etc. Party organizations preferring to
deal always with the same nucleus of activists and never bothering to attract
new personnel have only.thcroselves to blame if they suffer from cadre short-
ages. The Galati, Iasi, and Suceava regiunes are cases in point.(3)
PARTY GUIDNICE OF PEOPLES COUNCILS
The I:urty conmrittees or their bareuus sunur.on the Communists among the
leaders of' people's councils at regul::r intervals in order to analyze the
work of the state agencies they direct and to assign them specific tasks. At
the same time, they recommend to the people's councils the steps to be taken
to carry out decisions, rand instruct the party organizations to perform the
necessary spadework.
The party's leadership rn nifests itself not only through directives,
but also through the endorsement of certain key members of people's councils,
who may or may not be party members but are deemed capable if carrying out
party and government decisions. In the December 1953 election campaign, the
party organizations together with the FDP (Frontul?Democratic Popular, People's
Democratic Front) subr:rittcd, in addition to the names of party and government
leaders, the names of tens of thousands of workers, collective and individual
farmers, scientists, and artists who are close to the masses and havo proved
by deeds that they can be relied upon to apply party and government decisions.
But party organs must maintain vigilance to avoid cases such us those
which occurred in Bacau and Constanta regiunes, where undecirable persons were
promoted to the chairmanship of the Moinosti and Babadag people's councils
and held these posts until 1953.
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Attention must constantly be paid to the political and professional edu-
cation of cadre personnel. Many regiune party committees, Such as ;hose of
the Stalin, Cluj, Ploiesti, Pitesti, and Hungarian Autonomous regiunes, could
promote commune people's council chairmen and secretaries to key posts in
raion people's councils. But in Galati, for exa.aple, it i-- expected that cadre
personnel for people's councils will be sent from othen regiunes, which ac-
counts for the fact that many important posts remained vacant in the Galati
Regiune People's Council for 3 years.
To arrive at a dec4ion is only a first step which will solve no prob-
lems until the implementation of the decision and the checking of its ful-
fillment are provided for. The Lugoj Raton Committee formulated an elaborate
decision In the summer of 1953 for improving agricultural work in Harindesti
Commune, but the effort stopped there, with the result that the harvest was
brought in Loo late.
Bureaucratism must also be fought relentlessly. The bureau of the
Oradea Regiune Committee recently checked on the way workmen's complaints
were investigated by the regiurie people's council and found that letters re-
ceived as far back as 1952 had remained unanswered by the former chairman of
the executive council, Costea Constantin. Instructions were promptly issued
for the purpose of eliminating such negligence.
Regiune, raion, and city party committees are in direct control of re-
giunc, raion, and city primary organizations. Primary organizations within
regiune, ruion, and city people's councils do not have jurisdiction over the
activities of the councils. Party supervision of people's council activities
is exercised by raion party committees for radon and commune people's councils,
by city party committees for city people's councils, and by regiune party
committees for regiune people's councils. However, the primary organisations
within the people's councils are responsible for everything that happens in
the people's councils and must take an interest in the way government agencies
function. They must report all operational deficiencies or unsatisfactory em-
ployees to the higher party echelons and to the heads of people's councils.
But their most important job is to educate all people's council employees in
the right spirit. In a recent meeting of primary organizations of the
Ploesti Regiune Committee, party members severely criticized the members of
the bureau for having tolerated lack of discipline and formalism, as well as
carelessness and security violations in the handling of state documents
ana secrets, on the part of people's council employees.
Raton party committees must devote close attention to cotmnwne people's
councils, which are the direct executors of party and government decisions
in the villages. The C-ntral Committee decision on political work in rural
districts requires that raion party committees listen to a monthly activity
report by the chairmen of commune people's councils and discuss their activi-
ties in great detail. This duty is frequently neglected, and most raion com-
mittees in Galati Regiune ignored the decision until: 5 to 6 months after its
publication.
But the duty of radon committees to supervise commune people's committees
does not relieve the village party organizations from the obligation to watch
their activities closely. They do not have the sight to interfere with them,
but they can take their Communist members to task for unsatisfactory perform-
ance. In party meetings, village primary organizations must analyze such
problems as tax collections, delivery of the fixed quantities of produce owed
to the state, the progress made on state acquisition and delivery contracts,
education, cultural activities, etc.
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When a problem exceeds the competence of village people's councils, the
primary organization should refer it to the raion party committee, which
can call Joint meetinLs of ^epresentatives from the interested vifa&,!s 'or
recommend action to the raion people's councils. -- E. Turcanu(3)
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