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MOLDOVA - REBECCA HAYNES KARTONIERT (TB)

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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