Ethnic politics and the post-communist transition in moldova

Nationalities Papers

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 147-164

  Crowther, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ETHNOPOLITICS; POST-COMMUNISM; TERRITORIAL DISPUTE;

MOLDOVA;

EID: 0031853873     PISSN: 00905992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00905999808408555     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Eight of the 14 raions that made up the Moldovan ASSR were then joined with Bessarabia to form a new Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldova. Districts to the north of the current republic and the area between the Dnestr and Prut rivers to the South were incorporated into the Ukraine.
2. On the postwar famine see "White Spaces in the History of the Republic," Moldova Socialistǎ, 4 August 1988, p. 3.
3. On collectivization see A. Tikhorov, "Collectivization: Against White Spaces," Moldova Socialistǎ, 3 February 1989, p. 3.
4. V. Vizhutovich and E. Kondratov, "Post Script: Concerning the Art of Making Opponents," Moldova Socialistǎ, 23 April 1989, p. 4. Article appeared originally in Izvestia, 21 April 1989.
5. The Moldovan Popular Front was formed out of the mobilization engendered by the efforts of the Democratic Movement in Support of Restructuring and of the Mateevich Circle; and it included in its ranks many of the leaders of both of those crucial early reform organizations.
6. On the political dynamics of this period see William Crowther, "The Politics of Ethnonational Mobilization: Nationalism and Reform in Soviet Moldavia," The Russian Review, Vol. 50, No. 2, April 1991, pp. 183-203.
7. The Republic of Moldova (Chişinǎu: Foreign Relations Committee of the Republic of Moldova, n.d.), p. 16.
8. Snegur, a Central Committee Secretary since 1985, was appointed President of the Moldavian Supreme Soviet by S. K. Grossu in July 1989.
9. On conditions in Transnistria and the relationship between its leaders and the Russian Federation see Charles King, "Eurasia Letter: Moldova with a Russian Face," Foreign Policy, No. 97, Winter 1994-1995, pp. 106-121.