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Polska 1944/45-1989. Studia i Materiały

Romania and the Solidarity Crisis of 1980–1981: A Distinct Approach?
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Romania and the Solidarity Crisis of 1980–1981: A Distinct Approach?

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  • Daniel Filip-Afloarei Institute for the Investigation of the Crimes of Communism and Memory of Romanian Exile; New Europe College in Bucharest https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2036-7868

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12775/Polska.2024.07

Keywords

Solidarnosc, Ceausescu, Poland, Romania, communism, crisis, the 1980s

Abstract

The article questions the official narrative concerning the Romanian reaction towards the Solidarity crisis of 1980–1981. Considering an extended period during which Nicolae Ceausescu had a distinct attitude in the socialist bloc regarding the Solidarity crisis, the new sources show that things were more complex than a simple opposition against an intervention in Poland. The situation in Poland was perceived with great fear in Bucharest, just like in Moscow or Berlin.

Author Biography

Daniel Filip-Afloarei, Institute for the Investigation of the Crimes of Communism and Memory of Romanian Exile; New Europe College in Bucharest

Daniel Filip-Afloarei – researcher at the Institute for the Investigation of the Crimes of Communism and Memory of Romanian Exile (IICCMER) and a current fellow at the New Europe College in Bucharest (October 2024 – July 2025); former IICCMER fellow (October 2020 – March 2021); holder of two other Erasmus scholarships in Poland, at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (2016–2017) and at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw (2018–2019). He is the author of the book Un deceniu zbuciumat. România și criza regimului comunist din Polonia în anii ’80 [A Tempestuous Decade. Romania and the Crisis of the Communist Regime in Poland in the 1980s] (MEGA Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2023), and many studies and articles on Romanian-Polish relations in the 1980s. His areas of interest include: history of international relations and diplomacy, history of the Cold War and history of Polish-Romanian relations in the communist period.

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Polska 1944/45-1989. Studia i Materiały

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FILIP-AFLOAREI, Daniel. Romania and the Solidarity Crisis of 1980–1981: A Distinct Approach?. Polska 1944/45-1989. Studia i Materiały. Online. 18 April 2025. No. 22, pp. 143-162. [Accessed 1 July 2025]. DOI 10.12775/Polska.2024.07.
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