03740oam 22005894a 450 991081000540332120230808205717.0963-386-160-8(CKB)4340000000203899(OCoLC)1004538385(MdBmJHUP)muse53159(MiAaPQ)EBC5050525(DE-B1597)633525(DE-B1597)9789633861608(OCoLC)1338018856(EXLCZ)99434000000020389920160408d2016 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA Contested BorderlandCompeting Russian and Romanian Visions of Bessarabia in the Second Half of the 19th and Early 20th Century /Andrei CuscoBudapest :Central European University Press,2016.Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE,2017©2016.1 online resource (pages cm.)Historical studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia ;3963-386-159-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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).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.Historical studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia ;Volume 4.HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet UnionbisacshRomaniaForeign relationsRussiaRussiaForeign relationsRomaniaRomaniaForeign relationsBessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine)Bessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine)Foreign relationsRomaniaRussiaForeign relationsBessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine)Bessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine)Foreign relationsRussiaBessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine)History20th centuryBessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine)History19th centuryEthnicity, Historiography, History, Identity, Late 19th century, Moldova, Romania, Russian Empire.HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.947.608Cușco Andrei1692007MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910810005403321A Contested Borderland4068800UNINA