This study challenges the rose-tinted view of the interwar period in Romanian history, which is often judged against the darkness of almost five decades of Communist rule.<\/p>\n
Romania, like several of the states of Eastern Europe, emerged from the First World War as it had entered it, as a predominantly agricultural country, and one of its major problems was the condition of the peasantry. This volume\u2019s focus is the drive to improve that condition, on the collapse of democracy, and the search by Romania\u2019s leaders for strategies to secure the state, to assert the country\u2019s independence, and to maintain its territorial integrity in the face of the threat to the European order posed by two totalitarian systems, represented by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. By examining recent scholarship, this volume provides the most up-to-date account of Romania\u2019s predicament in the interwar years.<\/p>\n
Romania, 1916\u20131941\u00a0<\/i>is a useful resource for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars interested in foreign policy, politics, society, internationalization and late development in interwar Central and Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n
Table of contents:<\/p>\n
1. Prologue, 2. Romania 1916-1929. Politics, 3. Romania 1918-1940. Economics and Society, 4. Foreign Policy. 1918-1940, 5. The Cession of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, 6. Romania 1930-1940. Politics, 7. The National Legionary State, 1940-1941, 8. Military Dictatorship, 9. Romania at War, 1941, 10. Conclusion<\/p>\n
About the author: Dennis Deletant\u00a0<\/strong>is Emeritus Professor in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London, UK. He has authored many books including\u00a0Romania under Communism<\/i>\u00a0(2019),\u00a0British Clandestine Activities in Romania during the Second World War<\/i>\u00a0(2016), and\u00a0Ceau\u0219escu and the Securitate<\/i>\u00a0(2016).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paperback edition<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":5488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[696],"product_cat":[230,68,473],"product_tag":[719,43],"class_list":["post-5487","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_brand-routledge","product_cat-books-in-english","product_cat-carti","product_cat-istorie","product_tag-dennis-deletant","product_tag-romania","first","onbackorder","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t