Moldovans : Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture
The first English-language book to present a complete picture of this intriguing East European borderland, The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture, illuminates the perennial problems of identity politics and cultural change that the country has endured
1 online resource (530 pages)
9780817997939, 0817997938
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Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Physical Setting
1 Contested Territories, Contentious Identities
Part One Bessarabia Between Romania and Russia
2 From Principality to Province
3 Greater Romania and the Bessarabian Question
4 Forging a Soviet Moldovan Nation
Part Two Moldova as a Soviet Republic
5 A Stipulated Nation
6 Language and Ethnic Mobilization under Perestroika
Part Three Independence and Conflict. 7 Politics, Identity, and Reform after the Soviet Union
8 The Multiethnic Republic
9 The Transnistrian Conundrum
10 The Gagauz
11 A Negotiable Nationalism
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author