A Contested Borderland Competing Russian and Romanian Visions of Bessarabia in the Second Half of the 19th and Early 20th Century / Andrei Cusco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cușco, Andrei, author.

Series:

Historical studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia ; Volume 4.

Historical studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romania--Foreign relations--Russia.

Romania.

Russia--Foreign relations--Romania.

Russia.

Romania--Foreign relations--Bessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine).

Bessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine)--Foreign relations--Romania.

Bessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine).

Russia--Foreign relations--Bessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine).

Bessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine)--Foreign relations--Russia.

Bessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine)--History--20th century.

Bessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine)--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Budapest : Central European University Press, 2016.

Summary:

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. Through a critical reassessment and revision of the traditional historical narratives, the study argues that Bessarabia was claimed not just by two opposing projects of ‘symbolic inclusion,’ but also by two alternative and theoretically antagonistic models of political legitimacy. By transcending the national lens of Bessarabian / Moldovan history and viewing it in the broader Eurasian comparative context, the book responds to the growing tendency in recent historiography to focus on the peripheries in order to better understand the functioning of national and imperial states in the modern era.

Contents:

Empire- and nation-building in Russia and Romania: discourses and practices

Southern Bessarabia as an imperial borderland: diplomatic and political dilemmas

Rituals of nation and empire in early 20th century Bessarabia: the anniversary of 1912 and its significance

Three hypostases of the Bessarabian refugee: hasdeu, stere, moruzi and the uncertainty of identity

Revolution, war, and the Bessarabian problem: Russian and Romanian perspectives (1905-1916).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-71801-9

963-386-160-8

9781003718017

OCLC:

1004538385