Nadezhda Evgenevna Grinfeld had joined the Bund in Chişinău in 1903 and except for short periods in prison and emigration was continuously active in Menshevik organizations in Odessa, Kiev, and Saint Petersburg.
Elected as a Menshevik representative in the regional assembly of Bessarabia, Sfatul Țării, she supported Bessarabian autonomy in order to counter the influence of the newly-established Bolshevik government in Russia.
[1] As the Sfatul Țării was losing authority over the region and faced an ever increasing influence of the Bolsheviks by early January 1918, the various factions looked out for outside help.
[2] She further requested Ukrainian troops be called in to restore order and suggested sending a Moldovan delegation to the Brest-Litovsk conference, insisting that only the All-Russian Constituent Assembly has the right to ratify a peace treaty.
[4] According to Iurie Colesnic's book Sfatul Tarii: Enciclopedie, "The Romanian authorities expelled her over the Dniester in the month of January 1918".