CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Voronovici, Alexandr |
|---|---|
| Title | The Moldovan ASSR between the Bolshevik 'Empire' and Greater Romania: Nation- and State- Building in the Soviet Borderland (1917-1940) |
| Summary | The study focuses on the nation- and state- building in the Moldovan ASSR (1924-1940). In historiography the developments of the nationality policy in the MASSR are usually analyzed within the framework of the expansionist, arbitrary, highly centralized, top-down approach. The author reassesses the experience of the Moldovan ASSR, explaining the major decisions, strategies and logic behind them within the all-Union context. The nation-building in the Moldovan ASSR is analyzed not just as an expansionist project but also as a case of the korenizatsiia. The emphasis on the logic of Soviet nationality policy and its relation to the Soviet foreign goals give the possibility to reinterpret major turning points and paradoxes of the nation-building in the Moldovan ASSR. The author argues that quite radical turns in the nationality policies in the Moldovan ASSR can be explained by the ambiguous opinions of the Soviet authorities on the identity of the Moldovan population. Therefore, different, sometimes opposing, views and dimensions acquired primary importance within the changing Soviet contexts. |
| Supervisor | Iordachi, Constantin; Rieber, Alfred |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/voronovici_alexandr.pdf |
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