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

• Autore: Cușco Andrei
• Pubblicazione: Budapest : , : Central European University Press, , 2016; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2017; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (pages cm.)
• Disciplina: 947.608
• Soggetto topico: HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
• Soggetto geografico: 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
• Soggetto non controllato: Ethnicity, Historiography, History, Identity, Late 19th century, Moldova, Romania, Russian Empire
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: A Contested Borderland
• ISBN: 963-386-160-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810005403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Historical studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia ; ; Volume 4.