TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cusco,Andrei
TI  - A Contested Borderland: Competing Russian and Romanian Visions of Bessarabia in the Second Half of the 19th and Early 20th Century 
T2  - Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia
SN  - 9789633861608
U1  - 947.608 
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Budapest, New York
PB  - Central European University Press
KW  - HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Ethnicity, Historiography, History, Identity, Late 19th century, Moldova, Romania, Russian Empire
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Chapter I. Empire- and Nation-Building in Russia and Romania: Discourses and Practices --; Chapter II. Southern Bessarabia as an Imperial Borderland: Diplomatic and Political Dilemmas --; Chapter III. Rituals of Nation and Empire in Early Twentieth-Century Bessarabia: The Anniversary of 1912 and its Significance --; Chapter IV. Three Hypostases of the “Bessarabian Refugee”: Hasdeu, Stere, Moruzi, and the Uncertainty of Identity --; Chapter V. Revolution, War, and the “Bessarabian Question”: Russian and Romanian Perspectives (1905–16 --; Conclusion --; Instead of an Epilogue: Autonomy, Federalism, or National Unification (1917–18)? --; Bibliography; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789633861608
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789633861608/original
ER  -