Editor-in-chief of the Academy of Sciences N. M. Druzhinin, Moscow, Nauka Publishing House, 1966, 408 pp. Circulation 2 000. Price 1 rub. 65 kopecks. In the history of Moldavia and Wallachia, a significant place is occupied by the reforms of the 20 - 30s of the XIX century, carried out with the assistance of Russia. These reforms, which marked the beginning of a new stage in the development of the Danubian principalities, are commonly referred to as the beginning of the Romanian Renaissance. This issue was covered widely and rather tendentiously. The book by V. J. Grosula is translated by- In Soviet historiography, the author is a generalizing monographic work on the above-mentioned problem. It makes extensive use of the materials of the Central State Library, the AVPR and other archives, as well as extensive Russian pre-revolutionary, Soviet and foreign literature, primarily Romanian and French. The author was faced with the following task: research- page 162 The article aims to study the complex issues of socio-economic and political development of Moldavia and Wallachia in the era of late feudalism and the emergence of capitalism, which, according to the general recognition of Soviet and Romanian historians, are poorly studied in the Marxist literature, to analyze Russian-Moldavian-Wallachian relations, international aspects of Russia's policy in the Danubian principalities. One of the main advantages of the work is that the author was able to show how the external factor (the role of Russia) is refracted through the internal one (the socio-economic development of the Danube principalities). That is why the book pays so much attention to the socio-economic development of the principalities. The paper convincingly reveals that foreign oppression caused a slow process of separating crafts from agriculture, the weakness of manufactories; the Turkish wholesale trade monopoly and the lack of protectionist policies hindered the economic development of ... Читать далее