Peak dictatorship : Ceaușescu’s state visit to Great Britain, June 1978
Date
01/10/2019Metadata
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The Ceauşescu couple's State Visit to Great Britain in June 1978 has been considered by academic and media commentators as a dark hour for British diplomacy. However, this article aims to place this event in its context, drawing mainly upon newly-declassified British and Romanian documents. It investigates the background and the results of the Visit and the interests of both parties. If, on his return to Bucharest, Ceauşescu boasted of diplomatic and economic success, we argue that there can be detected weaknesses in the regime that anticipate its demise in 1989.
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Bowd , G P & Anton , M 2019 , ' Peak dictatorship : Ceaușescu’s state visit to Great Britain, June 1978 ' , Slavonic and East European Review , vol. 97 , no. 4 , pp. 711-737 . https://doi.org/10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.97.4.0711
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Slavonic and East European Review
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Peer reviewed
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0037-6795Type
Journal article
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Copyright 2019 University College London (School of Slavonic and East European Studies). This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at https://doi.org/10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.97.4.0711
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