enAlthough he was well aware of the disastrous condition of the Romanian peasantry, he refused to examine its causes. He wrote: There is no doubt that our peasantry is the most backward in all of Europe; in no other country, not even in Turkey has the peasantry been left so far behind as the peasantry in the Romanian kingdom. - Radu Ioanid, „Nicolae Iorga and Fascism”, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 27, No. 3 (iulie 1992), pp. 467-492, Publicat de: Sage Publications, Ltd. Stable URL: