Interwar Romanian history is replete with crises, real and perceived. Economic, political, and dynastic crises overlapped with moral, cultural, and intellectual anxieties. Against this background, this chapter reconstructs the specific experience of the Great Depression and its impact on agriculture and the rural world. It proceeds on three analytical levels, or “voices.” The first examines Romania’s international activity as an agrarian state seeking to defend its interests within the League of Nations and in relations with other Eastern European countries. Drawing on League of Nations archival materials and contemporary newspaper debates, it analyzes Romania’s initiatives in 1930–1931, including regional agricultural conferences and efforts to form an Eastern European agrarian bloc. The second level focuses on the experience of local authorities, particularly the Chambers of Agriculture—institutions established in 1925 as district-level intermediaries between local individuals or associations and the Ministry of Agriculture and Domains. The third reconstructs rural voices through field research conducted by, or inspired by, the “Bucharest School of Sociology,” as well as letters addressed to national institutions. These sources reveal Romanian peasants’ resilience and, at times, resistance to pressures. Yet the chapter also shows that peasant agency—often grounded in familiarity with hardship—remained sharply constrained by structural forces beyond their control.