He served as head of its Agitprop Department from 1948 to 1952 and was in charge of propaganda and culture from 1952 to 1955. He attended the Comintern's International Lenin School and was a participant at the Vth P C Congress, held in Gorikovo near Moscow in December 1931. The Comintern delegates to the con- gress, Béla Kun and Dmitry Manuilsky, sponsored his election to the PCR central committee. Chisinevschi came back to Romania with instructions from Moscow, helping to reorganize the Agitprop Department, the PC's propaganda nucleus. During the party's years of underground activity, he helped orient it toward Bolshevism. 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. Joining the Politburoafter August 23, 1944, he participa- ted in the anti-intelligentsia campaign, also publishing several articles and brochures under the pen name of Stânciulescu the following year. Between 1952 and 1954, he was involved in the shadowy machinations that led to the downfall of Ana Pauker.