Ştefan Gheorghiu Academy
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The Ştefan Gheorghiu Academy (Romanian: Academia Ştefan Gheorghiu, in full: Academia de învăţămînt social-politic Ştefan Gheorghiu de pe lîngă CC al PCR - aprox. Ştefan Gheorghiu Academy for Socio-Political Education in Relation to the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party) was an university created and used by the Romanian Communist Party (PCR) for training its cadres for executive and agitprop-related functions.
It was established as Universitatea Muncitorească a PCR (PCR Workers' University) and began functioning on March 21, 1945 in Bucharest, apparently on Ana Pauker's initiative. Its first leaders were rector Barbu Lăzăreanu, a literature professor, and secretary Constantin Ionescu-Gulian, a Stalinist philosopher. The name Ştefan Gheorghiu was added on February 10, 1946, in memory of an early 20th century Romanian social-democrat.
Another school with much the same purpose, Şcoala Superioară de Ştiinţe Sociale A. A. Jdanov (A. A. Jdanov Upper School of Social Sciences), was created separately; the two eventually merged.
The Ştefan Gheorghiu Academy was dissolved after the Romanian Revolution of 1989.
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