Leonte Răutu
Romanian magazine editor and politician (1910-1993) · Romania · On the map · Politicians · Died at 83
Leonte Răutu was a Bessarabian-born Romanian communist activist and propagandist, who served as deputy prime minister in 1969-1972.
Leonte Răutu is read about 10 times a day, in 6 languages.
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Anonymous portrait drawing of Răutu in Contemporanul, May 1948
Josip Broz Tito as a villain plotting the invasion of Romania (East German cartoon, presented to Gheorghiu-Dej on his 50th birthday, 1951)
March 1953: Gheorghiu-Dej (front row) returning from Stalin's funeral and being met by party officials, including Răutu (second row, middle, with Ghizela Vass and Mihail Roller on either side behind him)
Demands made by striking students at the various colleges in Timișoara in October 1956. These include the elimination of Russian-language courses and a reduction of Marxist studies, as well as a restoration of free speech
Ceaușescu and other Communist Party leaders on a visit to the Mureș-Magyar Autonomous Region (1965). Răutu is front row, first from right
Răutu receiving the Star of the Socialist Republic, 1st Class, from Ceaușescu's handsAbout this person
He was chief ideologist of the Romanian Communist Party during the rule of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, and one of his country's few high-ranking communists to have studied Marxism from the source. Răutu was of Jewish origin, though he embraced atheism and anti-Zionism. His adventurous youth, with two prison terms served for illegal political activity, culminated in his self-exile to the Soviet Union, where he spent the larger part of World War II. Specializing in agitprop and becoming friends with communist militant Ana Pauker, he joined the Romanian section of Radio Moscow.
