V ladimir S olonari . A Satellite Empire

Vladimir Solonari’s A Satellite Empire: Romanian Rule in Southwestern Ukraine, 1941–1944 represents a valuable addition to the literature on the eastern front during World War II. Focusing on Bessarabia, Bukovina, and especially Transnistria as sites of Romanian occupation, the study examines the unfolding of the military campaign; the institutions set up to enable a more permanent presence; the policies the Romanian authorities attempted to implement, inclusive of the ideas and more personal desires that animated them; the results of these policies in the realm of economic exploitation; and the reaction of the population on the ground, divided into three categories—accommodation, collaboration, and resistance. This project can be best described as the work of deep yet somewhat uneven excavation. The author has done an impressive job of identifying and examining the disparate complex archival holdings connected to this history of World War II. Given the linguistic difficulty of the task, with...

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