SUBVERSIVE ACTIONS IN BESSARABIA. TATARBUNARY UPRISING
SUBVERSIVE ACTIONS IN BESSARABIA. TATARBUNARY UPRISING

Summary/Abstract: After Russian Empire's collapse, the part of Moldova between Prut and Dniester generically called "Basarabia" decided the Union with the old Kingdom of Romania. Bolsheviks who came to power in Petrograd in (October/ old style) 1917 never accepted this fact, trying immediately that moment and especially after the end of the Russian Civil War and the consolidation of their regime to reverse this state of affairs. Therefore, in the early 1920s in the old province of Bessarabia, especially in its south where the structure of the population was diverse, the Bolsheviks began to commit subversive actions against the new power established by the Romanian authorities. These subversive movements would be crowned by what remained in history as ,, The Tatarbunar Uprising ” which was one of the biggest attempts to revolt organized by the Bolsheviks against the Romanian authorities. Against the background of this revolt, the Bolsheviks hoped that other localities would revolt and proclaim a Moldavian People's Republic to be annexed to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( USSR ). This uprising failed, never having the effect hoped by the Bolsheviks, being finally repressed by the Romanian authorities. As a result of this Revolt, the Communist Party of Romania was outlawed, and on the left bank of the Dniester Soviet authorities created a Moldavian Socialist Republic that would later be used as a chain ramp for their plan to conquer and annex Moldova between Prut and Dniester at the USSR.

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