| Physical description |
xxix, 303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Studies of nationalities |
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Studies of nationalities in the USSR.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-294) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Physical Setting. 1. Contested Territories, Contentious Identities -- Pt. 1. Bessarabia Between Romania and Russia. 2. From Principality to Province. 3. Greater Romania and the Bessarabian Question. 4. Forging a Soviet Moldovan Nation -- Pt. 2. Moldova as a Soviet Republic. 5. A Stipulated Nation. 6. Language and Ethnic Mobilization under Perestroika -- Pt. 3. 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. |
| Summary |
"Based on extensive field research and archival findings that no other Western researcher has seen, this book is the first comprehensive account of the history and contemporary politics of the Republic of Moldova. Charles King traces the major events that have shaped what is perhaps the least known of the former Soviet Union's successor states, from its rise as an autonomous principality in the fourteenth century to the traumatic territorial changes of more recent times."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
Moldova -- History.
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| ISBN |
0817997911 |
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081799792X |
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