Ghiţă Moscu

Ghiţă Moscu (born Gelber Moscovici, also known as and Alexandru Bădulescu; 1895–1938) was a Romanian socialist and communist activist, one of the early leaders of the Romanian Communist Party and its permanent delegate to the Third International.

He was born in a Jewish family, in the city of Iaşi, in north-eastern Romania. Before the First World War he was engaged in the pacifist anti-war movement, writing articles in the socialist youth press. During this period, he also held important positions in the commercial employees’ trade union. During the war he gradually moved toward communism, and in December 1918 was arrested and jailed for "attack on public security". In 1921 he left Romania for Soviet Russia with his wife Clara (also known under the pseudonym Ana Bădulescu).^[1]

In 1921 he headed the Romanian delegation to the Third Comintern Congress, and was elected member of the Executive Committee of the Communist International as the only Romanian representative. At the same Congress his wife was elected in the International Women’s Secretariat. Afterwards he settled in Moscow, and was active in the Comintern press. In 1924 he was admitted in the Bolshevik Party, and later that year participated in Romanian Communist Party's third congress, that took place in Vienna.^[1] During most of the interwar, Moscu remained the RCP permanent delegate to the Comintern.^[2]

In the late 20s, Moscu was entrusted with a high position in the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, but he was eventually killed in 1938, during the Great Purge, accused of “bourgeois nationalism". He was later rehabilitated, first in the USSR and then in Romania, during the de-stalinization campaigns in the Eastern Bloc.^[1][3]

Legacy

During the Tatarbunary revolt in 1924, Moscu was nominated one of the three main leaders by the Executive Committee of the Soviet Communist Party. The others were Max Goldstein and the ethnic Russian Kalifarski.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Biographical dictionary of the Comintern De Branko M. Lazić,Milorad M. Drachkovitch pg. 326
2. ^ Vladimir Tismăneanu, Stalinism for all seasons: a political history of Romanian communism. p.274
3. ^ The Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968, M. Mark Stolarik, pg.240

Persondata
Name	Moscovici, Gelber
Alternative names	Ghelber Moscovici, Ghelbert Moscovici, Alexandru Bădulescu, Ghiţă Moscu
Short description	Romanian communist
Date of birth	1895
Place of birth	Jassy, Romania
Date of death	1938
Place of death	Great Purge