The parties and the war. The position of the Na?ional Liberal Party, the National Peasant Party, the Romanian Communist Party towards the war in the east (june 1941 ? april 1943)

The material exposes, in its beginning part, the main events which happened before Romania joined the other countries in the Second World War, and continuing it by presenting and analyzing the position of the political parties in Romania referring to the entire political, social, economic and military life, in the period when the Romanian army fought on the Eastern Front. To support the approach mentioned by the title of this study are highlighted both formal and informal discussions, letters, opinions, statements, and boycott actions taken by the members of the National Liberal Party, the National Peasant Party and the Romanian Communist Party having as a main purpose the leadership of the Romanian state and especially, General Ion Antonescu, who had full powers to lead the state. The landscape of those moments is also completed by the information of the Secret Intelligence Service dealing with the political life of those times.