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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810005403321

Autore

Cușco Andrei

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Budapest : , : Central European University Press, , 2016

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2017

©2016

ISBN

963-386-160-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (pages cm.)

Collana

Historical studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia ; ; 3

Disciplina

947.608

Soggetti

HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union

Romania Foreign relations Russia

Russia Foreign relations Romania

Romania Foreign relations Bessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine)

Bessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine) Foreign relations Romania

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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).

Sommario/riassunto

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.