At the end of 1940 he was sent by the Communist Party's central leadership to Galați in order to coordinate the local cells, comprising, among others, future Securitate operative Ionel Jora. In World War II, authorities were alarmed by his alleged contacts with the Soviet Union and NKVD agents, at the time when Ion Antonescu's regime allied itself with Nazi Germany and took part in Operation Barbarossa ( see Romania during World War II). He was among the few intellectuals at the forefront of party activities. In 1938, during the National Renaissance Front regime established by King Carol II, the Communist Party ordered him to reestablish the UTC.
The following year, as the UTC was dissolved, Constantinescu was among the few of its members to continue political activity in PCR ranks.
The group was, in effect, an outlet of the Communist Party - its entire leadership continued to carry party work throughout the FSD's existence. With Bârlădeanu, Grigore Preoteasa, Gheorghe Rădulescu, Constanța Crăciun, and others, Constantinescu founded the anti-fascist Frontul Studențesc Democrat (FSD, the Students' Democratic Front) in 1935. During the 1930s, he attended the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, becoming one of sociologist Dimitrie Gusti's most notable students. In 1935, he joined the Union of Communist Youth, UTC ( youth wing of the PCR), and became involved in agitprop campaigns. Īccording to Bârlădeanu, Constantinescu used this period to decide between siding with the fascist Iron Guard and joining the PCR. Widely believed to be an illegitimate son of the geologist Gheorghe Munteanu-Murgoci, Constantinescu retreated to a Romanian Orthodox monastery a short while after receiving his bachelor's degree. According to fellow communist Alexandru Bârlădeanu, Constantinescu was born in Odessa. (During the same month, the Moldavian Democratic Republic was proclaimed, leading to the union of Bessarabia with the Kingdom of Romania). Reinstated under Nicolae Ceauşescu, he became a member of the Romanian Academy.Ĭonstantinescu was said to be born in Chișinău, Bessarabia, at a time when the region was experiencing the aftermath of the October Revolution.
Initially close to Communist Romania's leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, he became increasingly critical of the latter's Stalinist policies during the 1950s, and was sidelined together with Iosif Chișinevschi. Miron Constantinescu (13 December 1917 – 18 July 1974) was a Romanian communist politician, a leading member of the Romanian Communist Party (PCR, known as PMR for a period of his lifetime), as well as a Marxist sociologist, historian, academic, and journalist. Member of the Politburo of the Central CommitteeĬhișinău, Romania (now Moldova, or Odessa, Ukraine)įaculty of Philosophy of University of Bucharest
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