Between Openness and Neo-Stalinism: Italy and Romania in the 1960s and 1970s

Between Openness and Neo-Stalinism: Italy and Romania in the 1960s and 1970s Devoted to the Italian-Romanian relations in the '60s and the '70s, the study focuses on both the foreign policy of the two countries and on their internal situation. It is very difficult to determine to what extent the Italian side benefited from these relations, but it is rather obvious that the Italian connection was very important for the Romanians, interested in projecting a human face for a regime that was increasingly leaning towards a form of boastful dynastic neo-Stalinism, whose traces are still visible in the society and the economy of a post-communist Romania that is still struggling to become fully integrated into the European Union.