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
the Romanian treasure. But the knowing of the true springs of Christian Rakovski's action in the way of “insurrecting” Romania makes the present day historiography integrate these moments to both the attempt of “putsch” from Iassy and the similar events which were later started by the Soviets26 27. The German-Russian collaboration in this phase, even if it sprang out of different interests, offered favourable ground to the plans made by the socialist groups gathered round Rakovski, concerning Romania. If for the Central Powers what mattered was Romania's drawing out of the war, for Rakovski, as a plenipotential of the Soviets government, the main aim was to obtain the German-Austrian-Hungarian support in the view of the counteracting the Romania's action in the way of the applying of the right of the peoples to their selfdetermination on Bessarabian territory. This explains the precipitated visits of Rakovski to Stockholm in December- January 1917-1918, fact which results from the unpublished archivstics sources we have reffered to. The first visit of Rakovski to Stockholm is pointed out at the beginning of December 1917 in a telegram sent to the Foreign Ministry in Berlin, dated Sofia, December 8th, 1917 21. Its content is edifying concerning Rakovski's visit: it says that as “the government of Ukraine has nothing against the retrocession of Bessarabia to Romania" and "the present Russian governors are not interested in the matter", "the socialist Rakovski, who is in charge of the problem, was recently to Stockholm and now is in Iassy" where he prepares a putsch28. In order to inform the Austrian-Hungarian authorities, Berlin sent the content of this telegram to Vienna next day. But more convincing details concerning the aim and the implications of Rakovski's mission in Stockholm are be found in a detailed "strictly secret" report sent by Max Wassermann, a person close to the German ambassador Friederich Ritter von Wiesner, in 31st December 1917, a report which was also sent to Berlin29. The author of the report had discussed for many days with Rakovski in Stockolm "about the situation in Moldavia and about the necessity of the immediate overthrowing of the present Romanian World War I and Revolutionary Options 26 România în primul război mondial (Romania in the I WW), vol.II, p. 435. 27 Telegrama Şefului Legaţiei germane, Oberndorf, către ministrul A. Zimmerman (The telegram sent by the chief of the German Legation, Oberndorf to the ministry Zimmermann), P. A. Bonn, Fond Rumänien 16. Geheime Akten [1918, A.S.130] 31 decembrie 1917. 28 Ibidem 29 P. A. Bonn, Fond Rumänien 16. Geheime Akten-1918, A.S.130, 31 decembrie 1917. 97
