Description
Book SynopsisThis study challenges the rose-tinted view of the interwar period in Romanian history, which is often judged against the darkness of almost five decades of Communist rule.
Romania, like several of the states of Eastern Europe, emerged from the First World War as it had entered it, as a predominantly agricultural country, and one of its major problems was the condition of the peasantry. This volumeâs focus is the drive to improve that condition, on the collapse of democracy, and the search by Romaniaâs leaders for strategies to secure the state, to assert the countryâs independence, and to maintain its territorial integrity in the face of the threat to the European order posed by two totalitarian systems, represented by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. By examining recent scholarship, this volume provides the most up-to-date account of Romaniaâs predicament in the interwar years.
Romania, 1916â1941 is a useful resource for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduate
