45 Facts About Ilie Moscovici

Ilie B Moscovici was a Romanian socialist militant and journalist, one of the noted leaders of the Romanian Social Democratic Party.

Ilie Moscovici mediated between reformist and Bolshevik currents, and helped establish the Socialist Party of Romania as a fusion of both tendencies.

Ilie Moscovici spent the 1920s and 1930s on reconstructing the PSDR and enlarging its basis, sometimes together with, and sometimes against, the moderate socialist Constantin Titel Petrescu.

Ilie Moscovici was the party's representative to the Labor and Socialist International, a participant in antifascist causes, and a publisher of Marxist literature.

Ilie Moscovici died, after a long illness, before his party's involvement in the Coup of 1944.

In later years, after the PSDR was absorbed by the Communist Party, Ilie Moscovici's contribution was censored out of socialist history.

Ilie Moscovici's work was carried on by his daughter, Mira Moscovici, who helped reestablish an independent PSDR in 1990, during the country's post-communist era.

Ilie Moscovici was born on 28 November 1885, in Baiceni village, Iasi County.

Ilie Moscovici is known to have completed his secondary studies at the National College in Iasi, and to have enlisted at the local university faculty of medicine in 1906.

Ilie Moscovici was already active in Marxist milieu, scattered after the earlier split of the Romanian Social-Democratic Workers' Party.

Young Ilie Moscovici joined up with Leon Ghelerter's "Social Studies Circle", where he became comrades with Mihail Gheorghiu Bujor, Ottoi Calin, Max Wexler, and Emanoil Socor.

Ilie Moscovici was a frequent contributor to the socialist press, in magazines such as Romania Muncitoare or Lupta, and translated under the pen name I Nour.

Again mobilized as a reserve officer, Ilie Moscovici was captured by the German Army, interned, and transported to Germany as a prisoner of war.

Ilie Moscovici left after a few months and was replaced with Aser Penijel.

Ilie Moscovici resumed his militancy, cooperating with Gheorghe Cristescu and other Bucharest socialists.

In 1922, Ilie Moscovici himself wrote that the party missed out on an opportunity for revolution, because it "refused" to do so.

In hindsight, Ilie Moscovici referred to this as a hasty action, leading into a trap set by the authorities.

Ilie Moscovici, who represented the PS Executive Committee at the funeral ceremony of Marxist theorist Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea, ran in the May 1920 suffrage, carried out under a PP government.

Ilie Moscovici was elected to the Assembly of Deputies, alongside Cristescu.

Fellow deputy Alexandru Vaida-Voevod, of the right-wing National Romanian Party, recalled hearing them speak: Cristescu, he noted, was an "uncultured Romanian", whereas Ilie Moscovici was a "cultured Jew".

On 10 October 1920, Ilie Moscovici was one of the participants to the congress of the General Council of the Socialist Party and Labor Unions.

Ilie Moscovici, stripped of his seat in the Chamber, was made subject to a court-martial.

The recipient of an amnesty, Ilie Moscovici returned to the PS just as the radical side, inspired by the consolidation of Soviet Russia, was pushing for the party's affiliation to the Comintern.

Ilie Moscovici was picked up as well, and, although he had voted against Comintern membership, was indicted in the subsequent Dealul Spirii Trial.

Ilie Moscovici was the party representative to the ISWU Congress in Hamburg.

In Lumea Noua, Ilie Moscovici denounced the Comintern's directives on the matter.

Ilie Moscovici took charge of the PSDR's publishing activity and cultural club.

Ilie Moscovici had regular meetings with left-wing figures such as the Peasantist leader Constantin Stere, the physician Simion Iagnov, and Voinea's half-brother, the sociologist Henri H Stahl.

Ilie Moscovici eventually returned to the PSDR, and attended, alongside Petrescu, the Socialist Inter-Parliamentary Conference of 1931.

On 15 September 1929, Ilie Moscovici had become editor of a monthly, Miscarea Sociala.

The PSDR's pacifist anti-fascism was channeled in the creation of several left-wing bodies, frequented by Ilie Moscovici and accepting communist members: the Unitary Front, the League against Terror, the League against War and Fascism.

Ilie Moscovici was injured in the attack, and recovering at home.

At the 1933 PSDR Congress, which condemned the success of fascism in Europe and labeled Nazi Germany a "barbarous regime", Ilie Moscovici was elected to the Executive Committee.

When Ilie Moscovici presented his certificate of service in World War I, guaranteeing him special treatment, the officials objected that he was not a war invalid.

Ilie Moscovici was prevented from cashing into his Journalists' Union pension, owing to his racial origins.

Ilie Moscovici was advised to seek an interview with Antonescu, but he rejected the idea outright.

In summer 1943, with Petrescu, Ilie Moscovici wrote a note to the International Revolutionary Marxist Centre, detailing the "treason" of Flueras and Grigorovici.

Ilie Moscovici died, after a twelve-day agony, on the morning of 1 November 1943.

Ilie Moscovici left no final will, but Mira forged one to prevent the family from being evicted by the Romanianization bureau.

The Ilie Moscovici family maintained close contacts with Italian President Sandro Pertini, informing him about the realities of Ceausescu's rule, beyond its liberalized facade.

Shortly after Romanian Revolution of 1989, which reinstated multiparty democracy, Mira Ilie Moscovici joined Sergiu Cunescu and Adrian Dimitriu in reestablishing the PSDR.

Ilie Moscovici left for France in 1947, and became a major figure in social psychology, as well as a radical social theorist.

Serge's son, the economist Pierre Ilie Moscovici, is a French Socialist Party politician.

Ilie Moscovici has served in various ministerial posts, including as Finance Minister between 2012 and 2014.

Pierre Ilie Moscovici was one of the supervisors for Romania's European integration process.