WORLD W AR I AS REFLECTED IN THE ROMANIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY (1914–1989) RADU MÂRZA World War I represented a watershed moment in Romanian history because its end marked the birth of Greater Romania from the union of the historical provinces inhabited by the Romanians: Moldova and Wallachia became united in 1859, Dobrudja was annexed in 1878, and to these were added Bessarabia, Bukovina, and Transylvania in 1918. The political- territorial formula that was chosen at that time has, to this day, been regarded as the ideal form of the Romanian national state. For these reasons, Romanian historiography has paid special attention to the war and the Great Union of 1918. These events have been perceived by historiography and the public as the culminating moments of the historical processes that led to the establishment of Greater Romania in 1918. That is why these subjects ought to be approached together, but in this paper I will limit myself to the topic of World War I. Still, at certain points, I will also refer to the Union of 1918. I will follow the evolution of the manner in which World War I and Romania’s participation in the global conflagration have been perceived under successive historical periods and regimes, from 1944–45 until the present day. The present paper is part of a larger research project, PN-II-RU-TE– 2011–3–0172, supported by the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research, CNCS – UEFISCDI. It is a project that takes into consideration the entire Romanian historiography concerning World War I, from the Great War until the present. Intrigued by the general attention historians from various countries paid to the Great War in 2014, I discovered very interesting topics of study. I was interested in understanding the lines of continuity as well as the major discontinuities along which the Romanian historiography operated in different periods of time, throughout different political regimes (the monarchy 1914–47, the Communist regime cca. 1945/1947–89).