Russia on the Danube

• Verfasst von: Taki, Viktor Valentinovič [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Russia on the Danube
• Titelzusatz: empire, elites, and reform in Moldavia and Wallachia, 1812-1834
• Verf.angabe: Victor Taki
• Verlagsort: Budapest ; Vienna ; New York
• Verlag: Central European University Press
• Jahr: 2021
• Umfang: ix, 376 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Historical studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia ; volume 6
• ISBN: 978-963-386-382-4
• Schlagwörter: (g)Russland / (s)Außenpolitik / (s)Geopolitik / (s)Reformpolitik / (s)Imperialismus / (g)Moldau <Fürstentum> / (g)Walachei / (s)Elite / (z)Geschichte 1812-1834
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Taki, Victor: Russia on the Danube. - Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2021 |(DLC)2021013875
• K10plus-PPN: 1753310717

Abstract

"One of the goals of Russia's Eastern policy was to turn Moldavia and Wallachia, the two Romanian principalities north of the Danube, from Ottoman vassals into a controllable buffer zone and a springboard for future military operations against Constantinople. Russia on the Danube describes the divergent interests and uneasy cooperation between the Russian officials and the Moldavian and Wallachian nobility in a key period between 1812 and 1834. The main conclusion of the book is that although Russian policy was driven by self-interest, and despite the Russophobia among a great part of the Romanian intellectuals, this turbulent period significantly contributed to the emergence, several decades later, of modern Romania"--