CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Voronovici, Alexandr |
|---|---|
| Title | The ambiguities of Soviet "Piedmonts": Soviet borderland policies in the Ukrainian SSR and the Moldovan ASSR, 1922-1934 |
| Summary | The dissertation analyzes Soviet borderland policies in the Ukrainian SSR and the Moldovan ASSR in the 1920s and early 1930s. Adopting the situational approach, I explore the Soviet struggle for borderlands on the Western border and the role of the cross-border cultural ties in it. The dissertation argues that the negotiations, different interpretations and the interplay between actors on both sides of the Soviet Western border influenced and framed the evolution of borderland policies in the Ukrainian SSR and the Moldovan ASSR in 1920s. Although, the Soviet Union was a centralized state with a disciplined party, there was still considerable space for conflicting interpretations of Moscow's directives and the promotion of personal agenda by Soviet leaders and activists. The thesis focuses on different understandings of Soviet borderland policies and suggested alternatives, attempting to explain the choice in favor of one of them. The dissertation demonstrates, how in the process of the elaboration and implementation of Soviet borderland policies such categories as “Ukrainian,” “Russian,” “Moldovan,” and “Romanian” were defined and redefined by the Bolsheviks. |
| Supervisor | Miller, Alexei |
| Department | History PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/voronovici_alexandr.pdf |
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