Vremea încercărilor. Relațiile româno-sovietice, 1930-1940
The Time of Trials. The Romanian-Soviet Relations, 1930-1940

Author(s): Alexandru-Murad Mironov
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Cultural history, Diplomatic history, History of ideas, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: Romania-Soviet relations; Romania; interwar Romania; interwar history; international relations; foreign policy; Bessarabia; Soviet Union
Summary/Abstract: The book deals with some particularly important aspects of Romania's international relations in the interwar period, a problem centered on the years of the fourth decade, subject to research before and after 1989. From the beginning, the author insists extensively on what were the general features of the Romanian-Soviet relations, starting from the ideas and beliefs in the perspective of normal and civilized relations, which were found plenary in the conference of 1930, under the beautiful and expressive title "peace dynamics", and which testified to an evolutionary vision in the future and the hope of peace and understanding between nations, unfortunately countered by the actions of the Kremlin and then by those of Berlin. As for the general features of the Romanian-Soviet relations, they stood under the sign of Russian intransigence in the Bessarabia issue, tense, contorted, contradictory, with flows and ebbs, with blackmail and threats, until the resumption of diplomatic relations in June 1934. The author deals extensively with the origins of the Bessarabia problem, focusing on the circumstances, conditions and immediate actions of the historical event, as well as portraying the framework and how the initiation of the Romanian-Soviet negotiations was reached. The book is a contribution to the fuller, more documented, more correct and more objective knowledge of a distinct period in the contemporary history of Romania, being built on an excellent, rich information, in which the archival document is in a privileged position.

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