Socialist Republic of Romania

State · 1948–1989 CE · at its largest around 1948 CE

Communist Romania, which took this name in 1965 under Nicolae Ceausescu, whose rule combined independence from Moscow with harsh repression and a personality cult. It ended with the violent revolution of December 1989.

On its lands while it lasted

Josip Broz Tito (1892 CE – 1980 CE): Leader of the Yugoslav Partisans in World War II and ruler of socialist Yugoslavia from 1945 until his death, a founder of the Non-Aligned Movement.
Romanian Revolution (1989 CE): A violent uprising that began in Timisoara in December 1989 overthrew Nicolae Ceausescu's communist regime; he and his wife were executed on 25 December.