PROCESSI DI PACE E RELAZIONI INTERNAZIONALI NELL’AREA BALCANICA DOPO IL PRIMO CONFLITTO MONDIALE: IL SOGNO DELLA GRANDE ROMANIA LATINA
Peace Processes and International Relations in the Balkan Area after the First World War: The Dream of Great Romania Latina

Summary/Abstract: The tragic event of the First World War helped to revive the dream of all those Balkan peoples who for many decades had suffered domination by the multiethnic empires of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empire. Thus, the war offers the opportunity to rediscover its political, social and cultural roots in view of the creation of a unitary state. But projects are not always carried out as desired and the great powers that won the conflict pursue their own objectives, far from the desires of the peoples, while the Bolshevik revolution that broke out in the autumn of 1917 caused fear in Europe and threatened to overwhelm the newborn realities of the state. The “Russian”; influenced the decisions of the four “greats”; who, at Versailles, had to decide how to behave towards a new political class, the Soviet communists, guilty of having cruelly exterminated the Russian imperial family and of having inaugurated a regime of terror as never known before except in the time of “Troubles”. In this climate, mixed with terror and hope, is inserted Romania, which entered the war on August 27, 1916 at the end of laborious and ambiguous negotiations with both sides in struggle. It will be you who will be at the center of this essay; it will be your relationship with the new European order that will arouse hopes and concerns among your people who are grappling with the thorny issue of Bessarabia and Transylvania.

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