1. Alexandru "Alecu" Constantinescu was a Romanian trade unionist, journalist and socialist and pacifist militant, one of the major advocates of the transformation of the Romanian socialist movement into a communist one.
13 Facts About Alecu Constantinescu
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Alecu Constantinescu enrolled in high school due to financial problems he was forced to abandon it and work as an apprentice in an upholstery workshops.
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Alecu Constantinescu continued to collaborate with some former PSDMR members who remained dedicated to the workers' cause, such as I C Frimu, Alexandru Ionescu, Stefan Gheorghiu, and Mihail Gheorghiu Bujor.
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Alecu Constantinescu himself began in 1906 a tour of Romanian cities, helping organise the local workers, in the hope of creating an unified national trade union.
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In 1908, with the help of other socialist militants, Alecu Constantinescu founded a youth wing, Cercul ucenicilor, whose goal was to train young workers for the leadership of the socialist movement.
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Alecu Constantinescu led the proceedings of the August 1914 extraordinary Congress of the PSDR that adopted a strong anti-war declaration, and participated in the July 1915 Bucharest Inter-Balkan Socialist Conference that adopted a similar position.
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Alecu Constantinescu chose to stay in German-occupied Bucharest, where he attempted to reorganise the socialist movement.
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Alecu Constantinescu succeeded in creating a clandestine "maximalist faction", favourable to the Bolsheviks, and continued to spread anti-war propaganda.
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Alecu Constantinescu escaped capture, but nevertheless the Court Martial of the Second Army Corps sentenced him to death in absentia, and he was thus forced into hiding.
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Alecu Constantinescu was eventually captured in the summer of 1920, and was imprisoned in the fort of Jilava.
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Alecu Constantinescu was part of the Romanian delegation to the Third Congress of the Comintern in the summer of 1921.
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In 1923, Alecu Constantinescu left Soviet Russia for France, where he stayed until 1935.
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Alecu Constantinescu was quickly apprehended and sent for trial before the War Council of the Second Army Corps.