after attracting Joseph Stalin's suspicion, he fell victim to the Great Purge: arrested in September 1937 for "participation in a counter-revolutionary organisation", he was executed the following month in Moscow. In April 1968, Nicolae Ceaușescu's regime chose to investigate and exonerate most of the former Party members to have died in the period, Dobrogeanu-Gherea included. A similar measure had been taken inside the Soviet state in 1956, during Nikita Khrushchev's process of de-Stalinization. Sources Stelian Tănase, Procesul din Dealul Spirei Dosarele Istoriei, 10/1998 1879 births 1937 deaths People from Ploiești Romanian Jews Humboldt University of Berlin alumni Romanian military personnel of World War I Dealul Spirii Trial Romanian communists Jewish socialists Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania) Romanian Comintern people Romanian expatriates in the Soviet Union Executed activists Great Purge victims from Romania Jews executed by the Soviet Union Executed communists Soviet rehabilitations