LEADER 03740oam 22005894a 450 001 9910810005403321 005 20230808205717.0 010 $a963-386-160-8 035 $a(CKB)4340000000203899 035 $a(OCoLC)1004538385 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse53159 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5050525 035 $a(DE-B1597)633525 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789633861608 035 $a(OCoLC)1338018856 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000203899 100 $a20160408d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA Contested Borderland$eCompeting Russian and Romanian Visions of Bessarabia in the Second Half of the 19th and Early 20th Century /$fAndrei Cusco 210 1$aBudapest :$cCentral European University Press,$d2016. 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE,$d2017 210 4$d©2016. 215 $a1 online resource (pages cm.) 225 0 $aHistorical studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia ;$v3 311 $a963-386-159-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aEmpire- 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). 330 $aBessarabia?mostly occupied by modern-day republic of Moldova?was the only territory representing an object of rivalry and symbolic competition between the Russian Empire and a fully crystallized nation-state: the Kingdom of Romania. This book is an intellectual prehistory of the Bessarabian problem, focusing on the antagonism of the national and imperial visions of this contested periphery. Through a critical reassessment and revision of the traditional historical narratives, the study argues that Bessarabia was claimed not just by two opposing projects of ?symbolic inclusion,? but also by two alternative and theoretically antagonistic models of political legitimacy. By transcending the national lens of Bessarabian / Moldovan history and viewing it in the broader Eurasian comparative context, the book responds to the growing tendency in recent historiography to focus on the peripheries in order to better understand the functioning of national and imperial states in the modern era. 410 0$aHistorical studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia ;$vVolume 4. 606 $aHISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union$2bisacsh 607 $aRomania$xForeign relations$zRussia 607 $aRussia$xForeign relations$zRomania 607 $aRomania$xForeign relations$zBessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine) 607 $aBessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine)$xForeign relations$zRomania 607 $aRussia$xForeign relations$zBessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine) 607 $aBessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine)$xForeign relations$zRussia 607 $aBessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine)$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aBessarabia (Moldova and Ukraine)$xHistory$y19th century 610 $aEthnicity, Historiography, History, Identity, Late 19th century, Moldova, Romania, Russian Empire. 615 7$aHISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union. 676 $a947.608 700 $aCus?co$b Andrei$01692007 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810005403321 996 $aA Contested Borderland$94068800 997 $aUNINA