Immediately after gaining power in Petrograd, following the October Revolution, the Bolshevik government demanded the start of peace negotiations with the Central Powers. On December 15, 1917, the armistice was closed on the Eastern Front, and on December 22, 1917,...
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...
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,...
During the Great War, Romania’s main ally on the Eastern Front was naturally Russia. Things began to complicate in 1917, when the February Revolution took place in the Russian Empire, that resulted in the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II in March 1917. Relations between...
Minister of Religious Affairs and Public Instruction in the Romanian government during the First World War, Ion Gheorghe Duca was a close associate of Prime Minister Ion I. C. Brătianu. As a member of the Brătianu government which withdrew to Iaşi at the end of 1916,...