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Rakovsky secretly returned to Romania in 1911, giving himself up in Bucharest.

According to Rakovsky, he was again expelled, holding a Romanian passport, to Istanbul, where he was swiftly arrested by the Young Turks government but released soon after.

He subsequently left for Sofia, where he established the Bulgarian socialist journal Napred.

Ultimately, the new Petre P. Carp Conservative cabinet agreed to allow his return to Romania, following pressures from the French Premier Georges Clemenceau ( who answered an appeal by Jean Jaurès ).

According to Rakovsky, this was also determined by the Conservative change in policies towards the peasantry.

He unsuccessfully ran for Parliament during the elections of that year ( and several others in succession ), being fully reinstated as a citizen in April 1912.

Romanian historian Stelian Tănase contends that the expulsion had instilled resentment in Rakovsky ; earlier, the leading National Liberal politician Ion G. Duca himself had argued that Rakovsky was developing a " hatred for Romania ".