În căutarea unei dinastii sau a unei republici. România în proiecţiile postbelice ale Puterilor Centrale şi ale Rusiei sovietice
In search of dynasty or republic. Romania postwar projections of the Central Powers and Soviet Russia

Summary/Abstract: The four documents published and extensively commented upon by the author originate from the Political Archive of the German Foreign Ministry (Politisches Archiv des Auswärtigen Amtes) and touch upon a subject that has hitherto been scarcely discussed by Romanian historians. They refer to the plans put forward during the winter of 1917-1918 to replace King Ferdinand with a new monarch coming from another German princely family or, conversely, to establish a Soviet-type republic in Romania. Within a broader context, the documents also provide some revealing information concerning the projects and designs of the Central Powers and of Soviet Russia with regard to a prospective postwar world that was to be organized on the basis of an “exemplary” punishment of all those presumably deemed guilty of the “great European tragedy.” The documents also discuss the situation of the local elites on the occupied territories, Germany’s and Austria-Hungary’s attitudes towards the smaller states situated in their geographical proximity and the future political and economic role of these states within a postwar world that was to be founded on radically different principles. Finally, these documents also show the collaboration between the Germans and Austro-Hungarians, on the one hand, and the Bolsheviks, on the other, in those cases when both found enough common ground concerning certain concrete issues of common interest.

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