People from Hunedoara County - Petru Groza, Sandu Florea, Nicolae Densu?ianu, Ern? Koch, Ion Mo?a, Teodor Mele?canu, Filimon Sarbu, Aurel Vlaicu (Paperback)

Chapters: Petru Groza, Sandu Florea, Nicolae Densu?ianu, Ern? Koch, Ion Mo?a, Teodor Mele?canu, Filimon Sarbu, Aurel Vlaicu, Daniel Timofte, Ioan Mo?a, Florin Maxim, Ern? Csiki. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 51. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Petru Groza (December 7, 1884 - January 7, 1958) was a Romanian politician, best known as the Prime Minister of the first Communist Party-dominated governments under Soviet occupation during the early stages of the Communist regime in Romania. Groza emerged as a public figure at the end of World War I as a notable member of the Romanian National Party (PNR), preeminent layman of the Romanian Orthodox Church, and then member of the Directory Council of Transylvania. In 1933, Groza founded a left-wing Agrarian organization known as the Ploughmen's Front (Frontul Plugarilor). The left-wing ideas he supported earned him the nickname The Red Bourgeois. Groza became Premier in 1945 when Nicolae Rdescu, a leading Romanian Army general who assumed power briefly following the conclusion of World War II, was forced to resign by the Soviet Union's deputy People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Andrei Y. Vishinsky. Under Groza's term as premier until 1952, Romania's King, Michael I, was forced to abdicate as the nation officially became a "People's Republic." Although his authority and power as Premier was compromised by his reliance upon the Soviet Union for support, Groza presided over the consolidation of Communist rule in Romania before eventually being succeeded by Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej in 1952. Born as one of the three sons of a wealthy couple in Bcia, a village near Deva in Transylvania (part of Austria-Hungary at the time), Groza was afforded a variety of opportunities in his youth and early career to establish connections and a degree of no...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=50842