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

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Bessarabia-A Contested Borderland of the Russian Empire -- Conceptual Framework and Historiographical Overview -- Chronological and Thematic Structure of the Book -- Chapter I. Empire- and Nation-Building in Russia and Romania: Discourses and Practices -- The Russian Empire and the Challenge of Multiethnicity: Managing the Periphery -- Constructing the National Narrative in Romania: Models and Variations -- Russian Imperial Visions and Policies in Bessarabia between the 1860s and World War I -- Chapter II. Southern Bessarabia as an Imperial Borderland: Diplomatic and Political Dilemmas -- The Russian-Romanian 1878 Controversy: Between Realpolitik and National Dignity -- Southern Bessarabia in Russian Imperial Discourse after 1878: Visions of Otherness and Institutional Transfers -- Chapter III. Rituals of Nation and Empire in Early Twentieth-Century Bessarabia: The Anniversary of 1912 and its Significance -- The 1912 Anniversary and the Early Twentieth-Century Russian Imperial Context -- The 1912 Anniversary and Bessarabia's Public Sphere Russian-Romanian Symbolic Competition and the "Romanian Response -- Romanian National Discourse on Bessarabia during the 1912 Celebrations -- Chapter IV. Three Hypostases of the "Bessarabian Refugee": Hasdeu, Stere, Moruzi, and the Uncertainty of Identity -- Hasdeu-The Romantic Nationalist -- Moruzi-The Uprooted Traditionalist -- Stere-The Legal Revolutionary -- Chapter V. Revolution, War, and the "Bessarabian Question": Russian and Romanian Perspectives (1905-16) -- Bessarabia as a Contested Borderland during Revolution and War (1905-15) -- The Wartime "Nationalization" of the Russian Empire and its Significance -- The Controversy over the "Bessarabian Question" in the Romanian Kingdom (1914-16) -- Conclusion.

Instead of an Epilogue: Autonomy, Federalism, or National Unification (1917-18)? -- Bibliography -- Index -- Photo gallery -- Back cover.

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