THE UNION OF THE ARMIES UNDER CUZA: WALLACHIA AND MOLDOVA
THE UNION OF THE ARMIES UNDER CUZA: WALLACHIA AND MOLDOVA

Author(s): Ionuț Alexandru LUNGU
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Military policy, Politics of History/Memory, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: historical; Union; modernism; evolutions; laws;
Summary/Abstract: Seen in itself, as a historical moment, the Union of the Romanian Principalities is an event of crucial importance in the process of fulfilling the ideal of the Union. At the same time, the Union of January 24, 1859 opens an era of foundation and building of Modern Romania. Once seated on the throne of the country, Cuza thinks and triggers a process of national rebirth, a large-scale program, a real country project. The initiatives and reforms of the Cuza administration begin the reconstruction of the foundations of the country, a work of overwhelming difficulty: education reform, justice reform, agrarian reform, secularization of monastic wealth, fiscal reform, organization of the national army, etc. Laws and codes appear that create a European framework for development in a country left behind due to historical conditions: Public Instruction Law, Rural Law, Fiscal Law, Electoral Law, Civil Code, Criminal Code, etc. In a very short space of seven years, capital things happen: a new country is born - Romania - from the union of two countries separated by history, it changes fundamentally in front of a civilization, caught in the reins of an extremely slow evolution and a progress difficult to observe for centuries due to a deeply hostile history.

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