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In the interwar period the Romanian communist party was a small faction without any political influence,1 numbering only a few thousand members in 1944.2 However, from 1944 to 1948 it managed to consolidate political power, supported by the Soviet Union.
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Paul D. Quinlan, Clash over Romania: British and American Policies towards Romania: 1938–1947, Los Angeles: American Romanian Academy, 1977, p. 128;
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Leustean, L.N. (2009). Orthodoxy and the Installation of Communism, 1944–7. In: Orthodoxy and the Cold War. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594944_4
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