Systematization (Romania)
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Systematization was a program of urban planning in the Socialist Republic of Romania from 1974 to 1989.
Ianca (shown in a postcard) became a town in 1989, as a result of the Romanian rural systematization program. A model for a small town in geographically flat plain areas.
A typical village panel block in 1988 being built during the Romanian rural systematization program.
Nehoiu became a town in 1989, as a result of the Romanian rural systematization program. A model for a small town in geographically mountainous areas.
Militari neighborhood in Bucharest. The population of Bucharest doubled between the beginning of the communist regime and the Romanian Revolution of 1989.
Nicolae Ceaușescu
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Nicolae Ceaușescu was a Romanian politician who was the second and last leader of Communist Romania as general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 until his overthrow and execution in
Systematization (Romania)
…planning in the Socialist Republic of Romania from 1974 to 1989. Systematization was carried out by the Romanian Communist Party under the leadership of Nicolae Ceaușescu, impressed by the ideological mobilization of North Korea under its Juche ideology, with the stated goal of turning Romania into a "multilaterally…
Official portrait, 1965
Ceaușescu, at age 15, detained at Doftana prison, 1933
Ceaușescu giving a speech in 1954
Ceaușescu with Deng Xiaoping and Leonid Brezhnev in 1965