HISTORICAL COLLAGE: NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMAN WORKERS’ PARTY - ROMANIAN COMMUNIST PARTY

摘要

THIS PARALLEL INGRESSION INTO THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE GERMAN NATIONAL SOCIALIST AND THE ROMANIAN COMMUNIST PARTIES ATTEMPTS TO TRACE, USING A COMPARATIVE APPOACH, THE SERIES OF STAGES IN THEIR ACCESSION TO POWER AS WELL AS THE CONTEXT AND SEQUENCE OF EVENTS THAT ULTIMATELY ALLOWED THESE PARTIES TO BECOME TOTALITARIAN REGIMES IN 20th CENTURY EUROPE. THE CONTRASTIVE METHOD ALLOWS THE EMPHASIS OF BOTH CONVERGING POINTS AND DIVERGENT ASPECTS OF THE INCIPIENT PATHS TOWARDS TOTALITARIAN POWER. THE COMMON TRAITS INCLUDE A POOR INITIAL REPRESENTATIVITY, INCLINATION TO VIOLENCE, DISREGARD FOR LEGALITY, OPPORTUNISTIC SPECULATION OF THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT, USE OF COMPROMISE FOR ATTAINING KEY POSITIONS OF GOVERNMENTS THAT ARE TO ORGANISE NEW ELECTIONS, PREELECTORAL COMBAT OF POLITICAL OPPONENTS IN QUESTIONABLE WAYS AND EVENTUALLY ACCESSION TO AND MONOPOLIZING POWER BY METAMORPHOSIS INTO A STATE-PARTY. YET, THE ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCE CONSISTS IN THE DE FACTO LEGITIMITY OF THE GERMAN NATIONAL SOCIALISM IN STARK CONTRAST TO THE PURELY FORMAL, FABRICATED LEGITIMITY OF ROMANIAN COMMUNISM, THAT WAS IMPELLED BY SOVIET SUPPORT AND BY OBVIOUSLY ILLCIT MEANS.