CHAPTER XXX THE PRESENT ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CONDITION OF BESSARABIA
We have seen that Bessarabia is an almost purely agricultural region, with only a rudimentary industrial and commercial development; that when the Roumanians took it over from the Russians, they found it almost without means of communication, and with an uneducated and backward peasantry. Since then, they have had to struggle with several years of drought, particularly acute in 1924 and 1925, andSursa
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