CUZA’S RULE, THE CORNERSTONE OF MODERN ROMANIA. SEVEN YEARS OF INSTITUTIONAL CONSTRUCTION. POLITICAL CONTEXT
CUZA’S RULE, THE CORNERSTONE OF MODERN ROMANIA. SEVEN YEARS OF INSTITUTIONAL CONSTRUCTION. POLITICAL CONTEXT

Summary/Abstract: FROM THE MOMENT WHEN THE MOLDAVIAN UNIONISTS ELECTED HIM THE RULER OF MOLDAVIA ON 5 JANUARY 1859, ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA BECAME ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POLITICIAN IN ROMANIAN HISTORY. EACH OF THOSE WRITERS, WHO FOCUSED UPON HIS PERSONALITY, WROTE OR SPOKE ABOUT EITHER ON HIS QUALITIES OR HIS DRAWBACKS, OR BOTH. CUZA WAS, AS EVERYBODY KNOWS, AMONG THE FEW HISTORICAL PERSONALITIES OF THE TIMES, WHO SUCCEEDED TO EXIST IN THE COMMUNIST HISTORIOGRAPHY. THE FACT IS DIFFICULT ENOUGH TO EXPLAIN, AT LEAST THEORETICALLY, AS LONG AS CUZA’S NAME RELATES WITH THE FIRST LAW, WHICH EFFECTED THE PEASANTS’ TAKING INTO POSSESSION OF THE LAND THEY WORKED. INTERESTINGLY, THE AUTHORITIES OF THE POPULAR REPUBLIC WALKED THROUGH THE REVERSE PROCESS TOWARD COLLECTIVIZATION, WHICH DISPOSSESSED THE PEASANTS OF THEIR LAND, WHOSE PROPRIETORS BECAME DURING CUZA. JUST LIKE THE OTHER POLITICAL PARTIES, WHICH GOVERNED ROMANIA, THE COMMUNISTS THOUGH THEY FOUND THE PERFECT SOLUTION TO SOLVE THE LONGLASTING ISSUE, THAT AGRICULTURAL.

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