Habersack, Sabine - Puşcaş, Vasile - Ciubotă, Viorel (szerk.): Democraţia in Europa centrală şi de Sud-Est - Aspiraţie şi realitate (Secolele XIX-XX) (Satu Mare, 2001)
Teodor Pavel: Wold War I and Revolutionary Options in Central-Eastern Europe: the Project of the "Insurrection" of Romania at the End of the Year 1917
mother country” such as Joseph Caillaux, the agent paid by the Central Powers. More gentle, the Brătianu-Take Ionescu government was satisfied only by arresting Christian Rakovsky, the socialist leader of Bulgarian origin, a known agent of the enemy and a pacifist paid by Vienna and Berlin. The dissatisfaction of the radical socialist forces with the realities in their own countries have been exploited by the belligerent powers in order to satisfy the war aims of each side. In the preparatory phase, the Central Powers elaborated war plans of rebelling or “insurrecting” the nationalities and the radical-socialist groups from Russia and her allies, in the same way as the Antanta States have stimulated the social and national movements that aimed at the disintegration of Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. To the series of the actions ment to undermine the enemy by “revolutions” and insurrections are belonging also the things happened on Moldavia's territory at the end of 1917. “The insurrection of Romania” in order to pull it out of the war, with the help of the “maximalist” and bolschevized groups was the main preoccupation of the military and political leadership of the Central Powers and of Russia of the Soviets. Based on archivistic sources from the Auswärtiges Amt and on some documents less used historiographicaly, the present paper restricted itself to the discussion of the “Romanian case” as a part of a more general plan concerning Eastern Europe in the last phase of the I WW. In the same area of measures concerning the “insurrection” of Romania and her removing from the war there are the actions planned against the Romanian royal family by the political and military authorities from Berlin and Vienna, which are discussed in our historiography2, but upon which the unpublished archivistic sources throw a new light. It is known that even from the summer of 1916, after Romania entered the war near Antanta, the German leading circles took the first measures against king Ferdinand of Romania: at Sigmaringen the royal family organized a funeral ceremony burying him and excluding him for good from the House of Hohenzollem; his elder brother declared him a traitor of his kin and the Emperor Wilhelm II, the head of the Hohenzollem dynasty decided to withdraw the order of this House and all the ranks, honours and decorations which he offered him during his life; any further World War I and Revolutionary Options 2 More recently the micromonography loan Scurtu, Reeele Ferdinand (1914- 1927), Activitatea politică ( King Ferdinand. 1914-1927. Political activity), Ed. Garamont, Bucureşti, 1995. 87
