Petru Groza
| Petru Groza | |
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| Prime Minister of Romania | |
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In office 6 March 1945 – 2 June 1952 |
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| Monarch | Michael |
| President | Constantin Ion Parhon |
| Preceded by | Nicolae Rădescu |
| Succeeded by | Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej |
| President of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly | |
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In office 12 June 1952 – 7 January 1958 |
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| Preceded by | Constantin Ion Parhon |
| Succeeded by | Ion Gheorghe Maurer |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
7 December 1884 Băcia, Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| Died | 7 January 1958 (aged 73) Bucharest, Romania |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Political party |
Romanian National Party (1918–1920) People's Party (1920–1933) Ploughmen's Front (1933–1953) Independent (1953-1958) |
| Profession | lawyer |
| Religion | Romanian Orthodox |
Petru Groza (7 December 1884 – 7 January 1958) was a Romanian politician, best known as the Prime Minister of the first Communist Party-dominated governments under Soviet occupation during the early stages of the Communist regime in Romania.
Groza emerged as a public figure at the end of World War I as a notable member of the Romanian National Party (PNR), preeminent layman of the Romanian Orthodox Church, and then member of the Directory Council of Transylvania. In 1933, Groza founded a left-wing Agrarian organization known as the Ploughmen's Front (Frontul Plugarilor). The left-wing ideas he supported earned him the nickname The Red Bourgeois.
Groza became Premier in 1945 when Nicolae Rădescu, a leading Romanian Army general who assumed power briefly following the conclusion of World War II, was forced to resign by the Soviet Union's deputy People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Andrei Y. Vishinsky. Under Groza's term as premier until 1952, Romania's King, Michael I, was forced to abdicate as the nation officially became a "People's Republic". Although his authority and power as Premier was compromised by his reliance upon the Soviet Union for support, Groza presided over the consolidation of Communist rule in Romania before eventually being succeeded by Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej in 1952.
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