From the Royal Armed Forces to the Popular Armed Forces: Sovietization of the Romanian Military (1948-1955)

After seizing power, the Romanian Communist Party formed new, ideologically committed cadres that were loyal only to the regime. Consulting official documents, chronologies, dairies, memoirs, and confessions, Florin Sperlea builds a comprehensive history of Romania's "popular military," comparing it to similar entities within Europe's "democratic-popular" states.