Communist one-party state proclaimed as the Romanian People's Republic on 30 December 1947, renamed the Socialist Republic of Romania in 1965 under Nicolae Ceaușescu; ended when Ceaușescu was overthrown and executed in the Romanian Revolution of December 1989.
Overthrown in the Romanian Revolution; Ceaușescu executed 25 December 1989. The communist-era state was formally superseded by post-revolution Romania (monarchy formally excluded; republic continued under a new constitution) — treated in this atlas as ending where modern Romania (Q218) begins.
Cambridge's standard one-volume history covering the union of the principalities, the kingdom, and the socialist republic.