Moldovan Democratic Republic and the imperative of national unity (1917–1918)
Journal: Akademos
Year: 2024

The present study argues that the Union of Bessarabia with the mother country, Romania, on March 27, 1918 gave expression to the natural tendency of Bessarabian Romanians to return to the ancestral hearth, representing in the complex circumstances of 1918 an authentic salvation not only for the national being in Bessarabia, but also for its consolidation and expansion democratic values throughout the Romanian space. The author emphasizes that the determining importance of Bessarabia's return its