The Bessarabian Question in Communist Historiography

by Meurs, Wim P. Van

• ISBN13: 9780880332842
• ISBN10: 0880332840
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-04-01
• Publisher: East European Monographs

Table of Contents

Contents
Charts Maps, and Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Soviet Historiography	p. 5
The Writing of History in the Soviet Union	p. 6
Politics and History	p. 19
Soviet Historians	p. 25
A Short History of Bessarabia	p. 33
Bessarabia and Bukovina	p. 34
The Geto-Dacians, the Romans, and the Slavs	p. 35
The Moldavian Principality and the Sultan	p. 38
Bessarabia and the Russian Empire	p. 43
Revolution in Bessarabia	p. 52
The Greater Romanian State	p. 72
The Second World War	p. 84
Current Events	p. 94
The Moldavian Republic	p. 105
Nationalities Policy	p. 105
Soviet Language Policy and Russification	p. 124
Political and Cultural Participation	p. 136
Moldavian Historiography	p. 147
Politics and History in the Moldavian Republic	p. 148
Amateurs and Apparatchiks, 1917-1940	p. 154
Infighting at the Historical Front, 1940-1949	p. 166
The Soviet Synthesis of Moldavian History	p. 180
History and Politics in Romania	p. 205
Nationalist and Communist Ideologies	p. 206
History-Writing in Romania	p. 223
The Bessarabian Question	p. 235
Soviet Questions	p. 259
Soviet Rule and Moldavian Statehood	p. 260
Revolution in Bessarabia	p. 273
The Ultimatum	p. 296
The Cultural Heritage	p. 307
Romanian Questions	p. 329
Nicolae Titulescu and Romanian Foreign Policy	p. 329
The Second World War	p. 342
The Sfatul Tarii	p. 354
Conclusions	p. 361
Appendix	p. 367
Bibliography	p. 399
Index	p. 445
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