Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu
| Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu | |
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| Ministry of Justice of Romania | |
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In office 23 August 1944 – 23 February 1948 |
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| Preceded by | Ion C. Marinescu |
| Succeeded by | Avram Bunaciu |
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| Born |
4 November 1900 Bacau, Romania |
| Died | 17 April 1954 (aged 53) Jilava Prison |
| Political party | Communist Party |
| Spouse(s) | Elena Pătrășcanu |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Religion | Romanian Orthodoxy |
Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu (Romanian pronunciation: [luˈkret͡sju pətrəʃˈkanu]; November 4, 1900 – April 17, 1954) was a Romanian communist politician and leading member of the Communist Party of Romania (PCR), also noted for his activities as a lawyer, sociologist and economist. For a while, he was a professor at Bucharest University. The author of ample studies of social history, which expressed Marxist views, he was at the center of several controversies concerning his attitudes towards nationalism.
Pătrășcanu rose to a government position before the end of World War II and, after having disagreed with Stalinist tenets on several occasions, eventually came into conflict with the Romanian Communist government of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. He became a political prisoner and was ultimately executed; fourteen years after Pătrășcanu's death, Romania's new communist leader, Nicolae Ceaușescu, endorsed his rehabilitation as part of a change in policy.
Pătrășcanu was born in Bacău to a leading political family, as the son of Poporanist figure Dimitrie D. Pătrășcanu (Lucrețiu's mother was a scion of the Stoika family of Transylvanian petty nobility). He became a Poporanist and later a socialist in his youth, joining the Socialist Party of Romania in 1919, and working as editor of its newspaper, Socialismul (1921). Professionally, he was educated at the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Law (graduated 1922) and at the University of Leipzig (earning his Ph.D. in 1925).
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