Author: Paul Daniel QuinlanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780686232629
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Clash over Romania
Author: Paul Daniel QuinlanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780686232629
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
CLASH OVER ROMANIA, Vol. II. British and American Policies Toward Romania
Author: Paul D. QuinlanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781935924166
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
During the turbulent era of the late 1930's and 1940's the states of Eastern Europe and the Balkans were constantly involved in a struggle to maintain their territory and independence. Situated between Germany and Russia, these countries became the battleground of their larger neighbors. One of the most important of the Balkan nations was Romania. Strategically located along the Black Sea and the south-western border of the Soviet Union, as well as controlling the mouth of the Danube River, Romania had helped to block the Russians from extending their control to the Straits and the Mediterranean since the end of the eighteenth century. Moreover, Romania was rich in raw materials, being the number one oil producing nation in Europe outside of the Soviet Union. This is a study of British and American policies towards Romania from 1938 through 1947. Overall, first Britain and later both Britain and the United States tried to maintain an independent and friendly Romanian state. At the same time, the Western Powers saw Romania's independence as affecting their own security. British and American relations with this small oil-rich Balkan state provide an interesting and informative story in itself. More important, events in Romania had an impact on Western policies in general, and help to explain the origins of World War II and the Cold War. To date there has been no study of British and American relations with Romania for this period. The only study of a similar nature involves Germany's relations with Romania from 1938 through 1944 by Andreas Hillgruber, Hitler, Konig Carol und Marshall Antonescu. It has only been since the mid 1960's that the Western governments have begun to open their archives for the war period providing sufficient primary sources for such a study. Because of the lack of primary documents historians have been unaware of the importance and role of Romania. ... Romania, since ancient times a crossroad between Europe and Asia, seldom has been an area of serious concern of Britain's foreign policy. Historically, England's interests in that turbulent, oil-rich, Balkan country have been confined primarily to trade and finance. Yet during the first and second World Wars Romania was viewed by the British as being important to their own security, and during the latter period had a considerable influence in shaping English foreign policy."
Clash Over Romania
Author: Paul D. QuinlanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Dr. Quinlan studerer britisk og amerikansk politik over for rumænien 1938-47. Storbritannien og senere også USA søgte at bevare en uafhængig stat, men på samme tid så Vestmagtene Rumæniens uafhængighed som uheldig for deres egen sikkerhed.
British and American Policies Toward Romania
Author: Paul Daniel QuinlsnyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Romania
Author: Keith HitchinsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198221265
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Hitchins traces how Rumania's political and intellectual élites attempted to create an independent state before the advent of communist rule in 1947.
Extorting Peace
Author: Larry L. WattsPublisher:
ISBN: 9786066095617
Category : Cold War
Languages : en
Pages : 765
Book Description
Romania under Communism
Author: Dennis DeletantPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351781898
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Communism has cast a long shadow over Romania. The passage of little over a quarter of a century since the overthrow in December 1989 of Romania’s last Communist leader, Nicolae Ceaușescu, offers a symbolic standpoint from which to penetrate that shadow and to throw light upon the entire period of Communist rule in the country. An appropriate point of departure is the observation that Romania’s trajectory as a Communist state within the Soviet bloc was unlike that of any other. That trajectory has its origins in the social structures, attitudes and policies in the pre-Communist period. The course of that trajectory is the subject of this inquiry.
Ceausescu and the Securitate
Author: Dennis DeletantPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315481553
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
First Published in 2017. This book contains Deletant's research and view that an inescapable feature of life in Romania under Ceausescu was the ubiquity of the Securitate or the security police, known officially for much of the period as the Department of State Security of the Ministry of the Interior. He seeks to right the omission in Romanian literature, until now, of the mechanism of terror which Stalin used in Romania to enforce his will and about the organisation of the Department of State Security.
British Clandestine Activities in Romania during the Second World War
Author: Dennis DeletantPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137574526
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
British Clandestine Activities in Romania during the Second World War is the first monograph to examine the activity throughout the entire war of SOE and MI6. It was generally believed in Britain's War Office, after Hitler's occupation of Austria in March 1938, that Germany would seek to impose its will on South-East Europe before turning its attention towards Western Europe. Given Romania's geographical position, there was little Britain could offer her. The brutal fact of British-Romanian relations was that Germany was inconveniently in the way: opportunity, proximity of manufacture and the logistics of supply all told in favour of the Third Reich. This held, of course, for military as well as economic matters. In these circumstances the British concluded that their only weapon against German ambitions in countries which fell into Hitler's orbit were military subversive operations and a concomitant attempt to draw Romania out of her alliance with Germany.
Post Communist States in the World Community
Author: William E. FerryPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 134926380X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Post-Communist States in the World Community provides a selection of papers on various aspects of the foreign and security policies of the post-communist states of Europe presented originally at the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies in Warsaw. The articles cover Russian foreign and security policy, Russian policy in Europe, the foreign policies of the countries of East-Central Europe and Russian policy in East Asia.