by Ciprian Stoleru | Mar 12, 2020 | World War I in 1918
The closure of the Brest-Litovsk armistice between Bolshevik Russia and the Central Powers had adverse repercussions on Romania. The military situation suddenly shifted in favour of the Central Powers, forcing Romania to request a ceasefire. But what was the military... by Ciprian Stoleru | Feb 18, 2020 | Romania, Russian Empire, World War I in 1918
Russian troops on the Romanian Front began to be infected with the Bolshevik virus as early as the spring of 1917. During the summer of that year, during the battles of Mărăști, Mărășești and Oituz, some of the Russian soldiers on the Romanian Front, influenced by... by admin | Feb 26, 2019 | Romania, Russian Empire
Entente’s strategy on the Eastern Front for 1917 was agreed upon at the Chantilly Interallied Conference in November 1916. Russia was to launch in 1917 a general offensive on the Eastern Front, complemented by an attack by France and England in the west. Sometimes,... by admin | Mar 11, 2018 | Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, New or Changed Borders, Poland, World War I in 1918, Yugoslavia
On the occasion of his trip to Kiev in the summer of 1917, Czech leader Thomas Masaryk gave an interview to a Romanian journalist of the România Mare (Greater Romania) newspaper. This publication, România Mare, was edited in Kiev by Romanian volunteers from the... by Ciprian Stoleru | Jan 18, 2018 | New or Changed Borders, Romania
May 16, 1812. By the Peace Treaty of Bucharest between the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire, half of the Principality of Moldavia is annexed by the tsar under the name of Bessarabia. What followed was more than 100 years of forced russification of the...