- Sfatul Ţărei by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... the power of the soviets in Bessarabia and the preservation of the bourgeois-landowner order. On Dec. 2 (15), 1917, its leaders proclaimed Bessarabia a “Moldavian People’s Republic” and themselves the “supreme authority.” They turned for help to the Western powers, which saw Bessarabia as a staging area in the struggle against the country of the soviets. In ...
- Bessarabia by Courtney Sullivan
... submitted to the Turks; Bessarabia remained under Turkish control until the 19th century. Russia acquired it and half of Moldavia in 1812 and retained control until World War I. A nationalist movement developed, and after the Russian Revolution of 1917 Bessarabia declared its independence and voted to unite with Romania. The Soviet Union never recognized Romania ...
- Union of Revolutionary Peasants of Bessarabia by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
an underground organization established in 1925 by Bessarabian Communists to unite fighting groups active in Bessarabia since the occupation of the region in 1918 by bourgeois landlord Rumania. A manifesto of the union’s organizational committee declared the union’s main tasks to be the alliance of the peasantry with the working class ...
- Bessarabia by Nathan Stanley
... and lignite deposits. Bessarabia's leading cities are Chişinău and Tiraspol in Moldova and Izmayil and Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyy in Ukraine. The population consists of Moldovans (about two thirds), Ukrainians, Russians, Jews, and Bulgarians. As the gateway from Russia into the Danube valley, Bessarabia has been an invasion route from Asia to Europe. Greek ...
- Iakim Grosul by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... monographs The Peasants of Bessarabia, 1812–1861 (1956) and The Peasant Reform of the 1860’s and 1870’s in Bessarabia. (1956), the two-volume History of the Moldavian SSR., and many other works. Grosul was a deputy to the fifth and sixth convocations of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. He has been awarded two Orders of Lenin and two other orders.