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Leonte Tismăneanu (1913-1981) was a Romanian communist.

He was born Leonid Tisminetski in a Jewish family in Soroca, Bessarabia (now in Moldova). Tisminetski fought for the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, losing his right arm at the age of 24. In 1939, Tisminetski moved to the Soviet Union where he became a student of the Moscow Foreign Languages Institute. He then worked for the Romanian language branch of Moscow Redio, first as a newsreader, then as a writer.

In 1948, Tisminetski moved to Romania, where he changed in 1949 his name to Leonte Tismăneanu, at the request of some high-ranking party members. He was named the deputy director of Editura PMR, later Editura Politică, the publishing house of the Communist Party and also held the Chair of Marxism-Leninism at the University of Bucharest.

Between 1958 and 1960, Tismăneanu was investigated for "revisionist-type deviationism" (deviaţionism de tip revizionist), the inquiry ending with him being expelled from the Romanian Communist Party in 1960. Tismăneanu was allowed to join again the party in 1964 and then worked as a writer for Editura Meridiane.

His son, Vladimir Tismăneanu is a political scientist who headed the Presidential Committee for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania, which presented a report on the crimes of the communist regime in Romania.

Notes

1. Nu cred în legenda...
2. Timbre roşii...
3. Stalinism pentru eternitate p. 320
4. Stalinism pentru eternitate p. 333
5. Nu cred în legenda...
6. Stalinism pentru eternitate p. 333
7. Nu cred în legenda...

References

• Vladimir Tismăneanu, Stalinism pentru eternitate, (2005), Polirom, ISBN 973-681-899-3
• Andrei Badin, "Nu cred în legenda celor două Securităţi, una bună şi alta rea", interview with Vladimir Tismăneanu in Adevărul, 10 April 2006
• Vladimir Tismăneanu, "Timbre roşii cu portretul lui Lenin" in Jurnalul Naţional, 17 September 2005

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• Romanian Jews
• University of Bucharest faculty