 He shunned real intellectual problems and the debates of the Marxist left, instead idolizing Joseph Stalin.He was most influenced by the latter's "The Problems of Leninism", a sort of thumbnail sketch of revolutionary theory; once he had read the "History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) Short Course", with its blatant falsifications, he looked no further than Stalin for ideological guidance.A devoted Comintern man, he was unconcerned with Romania's cultural and political history and context.