1st Edition
A Contested Borderland Competing Russian and Romanian Visions of Bessarabia in the Second Half of the 19th and Early 20th Century
By Andrei Cusco
Copyright 2017
350 Pages
by
Central European University Press
Bessarabia, mostly occupied by modern-day republic of Moldova, was the only territory representing an object of rivalry and symbolic competition between the Russian Empire and a fully crystallized nation-state: the Kingdom of Romania. This book is an intellectual prehistory of the Bessarabian problem, focusing on the antagonism of the national and imperial visions of this contested periphery.... Read more
Introduction, Conceptual Framework and Historiographical Overview, Chronological and Thematic Structure of the Book, I. Empire- and Nation-Building in Russia and Romania, II. Southern Bessarabia as an Imperial Borderland, III. Rituals of Nation and Empire in Early Twentieth-Century Bessarabia, IV. Three Hypostases of the Bessarabian Refugee, V. Revolution, War, and the Bessarabian Question: Russian and Romanian Perspectives, Conclusion, Instead of an Epilogue: Autonomy, Federalism, or National Unification (1917-18)?, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Andrei Cusco is Director of the Center for Empire Studies at the Department of History and Philosophy within Moldova State University.
