The Russian Revolution and the Rumanian Socialist Movement,1917-1918
1968; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 27; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2493714
ISSN2325-7784
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics
ResumoThe collapse of the Russian monarchy in February and the overthrow of the Provisional Government in October 1917 confronted Rumanian leaders with the prospect of a violent change in their own country. Rumania’s participation in the First World War on the side of the Entente had by February 1917 resulted in a succession of military defeats and the occupation of two-thirds of the country, including Bucharest, by German and Austro-Hungarian forces. The court and most of the leading politicians had taken refuge in Iasi, the chief city of Moldavia, located only a few miles from the Russian border. A Russian army of about a million men and a reorganized Rumanian field army of some eighteen divisions manned a newly stabilized front which stretched from Bukovina in the north along the eastern slopes of the Carpathians to southern Moldavia
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