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Romania Party Training
In early 1970, the PCR carried out a major
reorganization of
its primary institution for the training of leading party
workers,
the Stefan Gheorghiu Party Academy, which was renamed the
Stefan
Gheorghiu Academy for Social-Political Education and the
Training
of Leading Cadres. The academy's mission was to train
party
activists and develop party leaders who could resolve
problems by
"applying the science of political leadership to the party
and
society." In September 1986, the academy was renamed the
Party
Academy for Social and Political Training, but its
structure was
not changed.
In 1989 the academy still consisted of two departments,
one for
the training of cadres in the party and mass organizations
and a
second for the training of personnel working in economic
and state
administration. Each department was subdivided into a
number of
institutes, sections, and training centers.
Admission to academy programs was carefully controlled
by the
party. Courses in the first department lasted four years,
and
candidates were selected from among activists in the
judet
and city party committees, central PCR bodies, and mass
organizations. Political activists in the Ministry of
National
Defense, the Ministry of Interior, and the Department of
State
Security were also eligible for training in the first
department.
The PCR also maintained the Institute of Historical and
SocialPolitical Studies in Bucharest, which functioned under the
direct
supervision of the Central Committee, and lower-level
training
programs that operated under the judet party
committees.
In 1988 the PCR Central Committee adopted a document
setting
forth policy on cadre political and ideological training.
The
document demanded that party and state bodies work with
greater
determination to accomplish the political, ideological,
and
revolutionary education of cadres. The Central Committee
also
adopted a draft program for improving cadre training in
the party
apparatus, the ministries, and industrial enterprises. It
called
for special programs to send party workers without access
to
political schools to university courses for political and
managerial training.
The study programs, which included practical work,
discussion
of specific problems, and field trips, covered such
subjects as
automated data processing, socioeconomic analysis,
forecasting, and
many specialized topics. To facilitate training of large
numbers,
branches of the Party Academy's Center for the Education
and
Training of Party and Mass Organization Cadres were set up
in
Bucharest and in three judete.
Data as of July 1989
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