ABSTRACT
The industrialization of Romania antedates the communist era. It is true that until World War II, Romania's economy was primarily agricultural and that extractive industries were more developed than others. The rapid industrialization of Romania was unrelated to availability of capital, markets, or raw materials, to labor productivity, quality of production, or modern technology, with the result that by the beginning of the 1980s Nicolae Ceausescu's grandiose plans are in jeopardy. Ceausescu's commitment to industrialization was directly and intimately related to the elemental political motive of survival. The history of internal political developments in Romania reveals that Ceausescu, as well as his immediate predecessor Gheorghiu-Dej, has always had authoritarian, Stalinist or neo-Stalinist, views on the conduct of Romanian affairs. The alleged reason for the Hungarians' discontent is the adoption of Romanization policies detrimental to their constitutional and historic rights. The diminution of Ceausescu's importance in international affairs is also likely to contribute to exacerbation of Romania's internal problems.
