Din memoriile unui „diplomat roșu”: Sovietele și problema Basarabiei (sfârșitul anilor 1920)
From the Memoirs of a “Red Diplomat”: The Soviets and the Bessarabian Question in the Late 1920s

Summary/Abstract: This study demonstrates that the memoirs of the former Soviet diplomat Grigory Z. Besedovsky, who defected from the Soviet Embassy in Paris and was granted political asylum in France in 1929, remain largely unknown in Romanian historiography. Yet these memoirs offer valuable insights into the inner workings of Soviet diplomacy and the Kremlin’s policy toward Bessarabia. In particular, they shed light on the Soviet leadership’s efforts to prevent the ratification of the Paris Treaty of Bessarabia (28 October 1920). At the same time, Besedovsky suggests that, behind closed doors in the Kremlin, the possibility of recognizing Romania’s sovereignty over the territory between the Prut and the Dniester was not entirely ruled out, provided that certain political circumstances emerged and specific conditions were met.

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