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Throughout the past two centuries, Moldova was the object of a variety of culture-building efforts from Russian, Romanian, and Soviet influences before emerging as an independent state in 1991. The author
Charles King is Ion Ratiu Professor of Romanian Studies, Professor of International Affairs, and Professor of Government at Georgetown University. He is the author of The Black Sea: A History and The Moldovans, and his writing has appeared in The Times Literary Supplement and Foreign Affairs.
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| Foreword | ||
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction: The Physical Setting | ||
| 1 | Contested Territories, Contentious Identities | 1 |
| Pt. 1 | Bessarabia Between Romania and Russia | |
| 2 | From Principality to Province | 11 |
| 3 | Greater Romania and the Bessarabian Question | 36 |
| 4 | Forging a Soviet Moldovan Nation | 63 |
| Pt. 2 | Moldova as a Soviet Republic | |
| 5 | A Stipulated Nation | 91 |
| 6 | Language and Ethnic Mobilization under Perestroika | 120 |
| Pt. 3 | Independence and Conflict | |
| 7 | Politics, Identity, and Reform after the Soviet Union | 145 |
| 8 | The Multiethnic Republic | 168 |
| 9 | The Transnistrian Conundrum | 178 |
| 10 | The Gagauz | 209 |
| 11 | A Negotiable Nationalism | 224 |
| Notes | 231 | |
| Glossary | 269 | |
| Bibliography | 273 | |
| Index | 295 |
Overview
Throughout the past two centuries, Moldova was the object of a variety of culture-building efforts from Russian, Romanian, and Soviet influences before emerging as an independent state in 1991. The author