Moldova

A History

AvRebecca Haynes

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Moldova is a new nation-state with a long history. Despite only recently gaining independence, following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Moldova’s roots stretch all the way back to the Principality of Moldavia, established in 1359. After centuries toiling under Ottoman control, and latterly Russian Imperial rule, the Moldovans briefly tasted independence in the early twentieth century, before being annexed by the Soviet Union. In recent times, the Transnistrian Dispute has once again threatened the sovereignty, and indeed the independence, of Moldova and this conflict remains unresolved today.For the first time in English, this book places the problems of contemporary Moldova in a long-term historical perspective. It argues that the Moldovans’ complex relations with the Russians and the West are not simply the product of the Soviet era but have their roots in earlier centuries. Haynes contends that the Moldovan lands, and Moldovan identity and culture, have long been contested: by the Roman and Byzantine Empires of antiquity, by the expanding Hungarian and Polish-Lithuanian kingdoms in the Middle Ages, by the Ottoman, Habsburg, Russian and Soviet empires in more recent centuries, and by the Romanian state. The book provides a political and cultural history of the growth and development of the medieval Principality of Moldova, the Principality’s partition and Russian rule in Bessarabia from 1812, Bessarabia under Romanian rule in the inter-war period, Soviet Moldova and the independent Republic of Moldova.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-03-19
Mått:154 x 236 x 20 mm
Vikt:540 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781788318143

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Rebecca Haynes is Senior Lecturer in Romanian History at the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies (SSEES), University College London. She is the author of Romanian Policy Towards Germany, 1936-40 and co-editor of In the Shadow of Hitler: Personalities of the Right in Central and Eastern Europe (I.B.Tauris).

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Moldova: A History is a thorough work that draws upon an often overlooked topic in modern scholarly thought and raises different issues that are crucial for understanding the Republic of Moldova’s behaviour on the international stage. The accessible writing, with explanations of basic terms and names, means that it will appeal to those who do not have any prior knowledge of the history of contemporary Moldova, and it is a useful addition to the available English-language literature on this contested borderland.

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Introduction1. The Early History and the Foundation of the Principality of Moldova2. The Middle Ages: The Reigns of Alexander the Good and Stephen the Great3. The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Moldova under Ottoman Suzerainty4. Dimitrie Cantemir, Russia and Phanariot Rule5. The Growth of Russian Influence in the Moldovan Principality6. Russia and the Principalities after 1812 and the Growth of French Influence7. Bessarabia under Russian Rule 1812-19188. Bessarabia and the 1918 Union with Romania9. Interwar Bessarabia10. Soviet Moldova11. Post-Soviet Moldova and Ethnic FragmentationThe Republic of Moldova ain the 21st Century and the Transnistrian DisputeIndex