Contents // Introduction, 1 // PART I // A Comparative Analysis of Nationalist and Leninist // Ideologies and Nation-Building Strategies // 1 Nation-Building Strategies, 7 // 2 Background Factors and National Profiles, 21 // 3 Comparative Analysis, 42 // 4 Conclusions, 60 // PART II // Nation Building in Romania: Priorities and // Strategies, 1944-1955 // 5 Argument and Areas of Analysis, 73 // 6 Organizational and Situational Factors, 75 // 7 The Breaking-Through Process, 92 // 8 The Breaking-Through Process and Industrialization, 110 // 9 The Breaking-Through Process and Community // Building, 114 // 10 The Breaking-Through Process and Party // Institutionalization, 131 // 11 The Romanian Party Elite in 1955, 150 // PART III // Emulation, Mediation, and Initiation: Romanian National // Development, 1955-1965 // 12 Concerns, Concepts, and Conclusions, 159 // 13 A Period of Latent Learning and Docility, 1953—1957, 162 // 14 A Period of Emulation, 1958-1961, 174 // 15 A Period of Initiation, 1962-1965, 198 // PART IV // A Period of Elaboration and Synthesis, July, 1965-July, 1969 // 16 "On" Time and Synthesis, 231 // 17 The Romanian Communist Party and the World // Communist Movement: A Redefinition of Unity, 233 // 18 The Romanian Communist Party and the Nation, 273 // AGENDA, 293 // BIBLIOGRAPHY, 295 // Index, 309