Ion Flueraş şi afilierea mişcării socialiste din România la Internaţionala a III-a Comunistă (Partea a II-a)1
Ion Flueraş and the Affiliation of Socialist Movement from Romania at the III-rd Communist International
The second part of the article is about the travel of the delegation of the socialist movement in Romania made in Soviet Russia in the fall of 1920, with the specified aim to get information about the Soviet realities and about the conditions for affiliation to the 3rd Communist International.An important number of the socialist leaders in Romania insisted more and more on the affiliation to the Communist International. The leader of the Transylvanian social- democrats, Ion Flueras, was inthat delegation, together with Gheorghe Cristescu, Alexandru Dobrogeanu-Gherea, Eugen Rozvan, Constantin Popovici, David Fabian. The travel to Moscow, full of adventure, was briefly described by Flueras in some notes. The members of the delegation endured some tough critics because of the national position that the socialist movement in Romania, especially that in Transylvania and Bucovina adopted before the Unification. The affiliation to Comintern was accepted with no condition by all members of the delegation but Flueras. In that terms, Flueras was excluded from the delegation and was forced to leave the Soviet Russia. Ion Flueras was the only member of the Romanian socialist delegation that left for Moscow, who expressed a firm and determined attitude for defending the European social-democratic principles and for the Unification on the 1st of December 1918.
Keywords: the III-rd Communist International, the socialist movement from Romania, Ion Flueraş, the Comintern affiliation, communist groups
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