small-scale works on dialectical materialism, Dobrogeanu-Gherea published his most debated volume, the 1910 Neoiobăgia (Studiu economico-sociologic al problemei noastre agrare) ["Neo-Serfdom (A Social and Economical Study of Our Land Issue)"]. The work argued that Romania was trapped in feudalism, with the minimum of capitalist vehicles present only to ensure an easier exploitation of the peasantry by the social élite. According to Dobrogenu-Gherea, the land reform carried out under Alexandru Ioan Cuza (in 1864) had only procrastinated a dramatic outcome. In 1915, Leon Trotsky, citing Dobrogeanu-Gherea alongside Christian Rakovsky as a major figure of socialism in Romania, commented on Neo-Serfdom'''s conclusions: "All the contradictions of the social and political life of : the bondage of the peasants, judicially repealed but resurrected by the logic of economic relations; the parliamentary regime set up on the basis of Asiatic agrarianism; "British" freedoms in the cities, the old style Turkish despotism in the countryside -all these phenomena are subjected in Gherea’s great book to a truly masterly analysis where clarity and simplicity go hand in hand with a genuine Marxist profundity.''" Legacy Dobrogeanu-Gherea's works were adopted by the Romanian Communist Party. However, few of Dobrogeanu-Gherea's writings could be said to advocate political revolution, and all of them fit in the patterns of reformism. In 1948, he was posthumously made a member of the Romanian Academy. References Profile of Gherea by Trotsky at Marxists.org Archive of Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea Papers at the International Institute of Social History Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Romania Converts to Eastern Orthodoxy from Judaism Ukrainian Jews Romanian Marxist historians Marxist theorists Poporanists Members of the Romanian Academy elected posthumously National University of Kharkiv alumni Romanian essayists 20th-century Romanian historians Romanian Jews Romanian journalists Romanian literary critics Romanian political scientists Romanian socialists Jewish socialists Romanian sociologists Romanian restaurateurs 1855 births 1920 deaths 19th-century Romanian historians