FROM THE EXPORT-COUNTER-REVOLUTION TO CORDON SANITAIRE: GERMANY AND ROMANIA IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST BOLSHEVISM, 1918-1919
FROM THE EXPORT-COUNTER-REVOLUTION TO CORDON SANITAIRE: GERMANY AND ROMANIA IN THE STRUGGLE AGAINST BOLSHEVISM, 1918-1919

Summary/Abstract: The First World War led to the collapse of the Russian and the Austro-Hungarian Empires and the emergence of Bolshevism as a new challenge of the World order. The first steps to the neutralization of the spread of Bolshevism and the restoration of the monarchies were taken by Germany in the former Russian Empire in 1918 and by Romania in Hungary in 1919. Both at-tempts were accompanied by territorial aspirations of the interventionist powers. Soviet enlargement was stopped. Nevertheless, in spite of the combined efforts of the interventionists and the internal national counter-revolution forces the Bolshevik regime in Russia for all that retained. As a result, after the end of the First World War, the Entente decided to create the so-called Cordon Sanitaire in Central and Eastern Europe in order to halt the spread of Bolshevism instead of the liquidation of Soviet power in Russia.

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