The creation of autonomous regions on the territory of the union republics of the newly created Soviet state was a practice often used by the communist regime to resubordinate the provinces lost at the end of the First World War. In order to theoretically preserve the chance to integrate the former province of Bessarabia into the new empire during 1924, the new Kremlin leader Joseph Stalin decided to form a republic and a new people, the Moldavian SSR and the Moldavian people distinct from the Romanian one. This decision proved to be catastrophic for the Romanians living in Bessarabia over the next 100 years, who in this way could be forced to link their fate to Russia.
The disintegration of the USSR in December 1991 marked the end of the Cold War. Many foreign policy analysts were quick to point out that Russian Federation had ceased to be a threat to the Western world. Despite facing a multitude of economic, social and military problems, under the leadership of Vladimir Putin the Russian state managed to be reborn. Russian Federation's miraculous return was made possible by the successful implementation of a policy of economic centralization that overlapped with a period of rising global oil prices. Economic prosperity encouraged the Russian Federation government to return to the old practices of the Soviet period, succeeding in unbalancing the fragile states of Eastern Europe and once again endangering the peace of the entire continent.
Dezintegrarea URSS, produsă în decembrie 1991, a marcat, din punct de vedere istoric, finalul Războiului Rece. Foarte mulți dintre analiștii de politică externă s-au grăbit să afirme că Federația Rusă a încetat să mai reprezinte o amenințare pentru lumea occidentală. În ciuda faptului că s-a confruntat cu o multitudine de probleme economice, sociale și militare, sub conducerea lui Vladimir Putin, statul rus a reușit să renască. Revenirea miraculoasă a Federației Ruse a fost posibilă ca urmare a implementării cu succes a unei politici de centralizare economică, ce s-a suprapus cu o perioadă de creștere, la nivel global, a prețurilor la hidrocarburi. Prosperitatea economică a încurajat guvernul rus să revină la vechile practici din perioada sovietică, reușind să dezechilibreze fragilele state din Europa de Est și să pună din nou în pericol pacea întregului continent.
Dezintegrarea URSS, produsă în decembrie 1991, a marcat, din punct de vedere istoric, finalul Războiului Rece. Foarte mulți dintre analiștii de politică externă s-au grăbit să afirme că Federația Rusă a încetat să mai reprezinte o amenințare pentru lumea occidentală. În ciuda faptului că s-a confruntat cu o multitudine de probleme economice, sociale și militare, sub conducerea lui Vladimir Putin, statul rus a reușit să renască. Revenirea miraculoasă a Federației Ruse a fost posibilă ca urmare a implementării cu succes a unei politici de centralizare economică, ce s-a suprapus cu o perioadă de creștere, la nivel global, a prețurilor la hidrocarburi. Prosperitatea economică a încurajat guvernul rus să revină la vechile practici din perioada sovietică, reușind să dezechilibreze fragilele state din Europa de Est și să pună din nou în pericol pacea întregului continent.
The disintegration of the USSR in December 1991 marked the end of the Cold War. Many foreign policy analysts were quick to point out that Russian Federation had ceased to be a threat to the Western world. Despite facing a multitude of economic, social and military problems, under the leadership of Vladimir Putin the Russian state managed to be reborn. Russian Federation's miraculous return was made possible by the successful implementation of a policy of economic centralization that overlapped with a period of rising global oil prices. Economic prosperity encouraged the Russian Federation government to return to the old practices of the Soviet period, succeeding in unbalancing the fragile states of Eastern Europe and once again endangering the peace of the entire continent. Keywords: Russian Federation; Cold War; Crimea; hydrocarbons; conflict.
The end of the First World War produced a major reconfiguration of the political map of Europe. The three anachronistic empires that continued to exist in the Eastern part of the continent (Ottoman, Tsarist, and Austro-Hungarian) quickly disintegrated and gave way to a system of politically unstable nation-states. The Trianon Treaty signed in 1920 annulled the Hungarian multiethnic state formed by a context of circumstances in 1867 and sowed the seeds of the conflicts that followed. The Hungarians, the main losers of the peace treaty, developed a real cult for the Hungarian "millennial" state and tried to identify solutions for its recreation. Geopolitics, a rising science at that time, became the main instrument of Hungarian revisionism and created the necessary conditions for the renegotiation of borders at the beginning of the Second World War.
The desintegration of the socialist states offered political leaders the chance to redefine the identity of their own nations. Even if the European Union, a creation of the occidental cultural space, represented the first option, a part of the leaders of central European states took very seriously the idea of rebuilding the economic and cultural space of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. Even after the disintegration of this political and economic system, the central European world continued to refer to the rules that defined it. Despite the attempts of the communist regime to rewrite the history of these nations, Mitteleurope remained a mark for the people of these lands and even became a viable option in a society that rediscovered their multicultural past.
