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Moldova - A History (Paperback)
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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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