Moldova, transnistria and the PCRM's turn to the west

East European Quarterly

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 273-304

  Crowther, William ^a  

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

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3. For a thorough treatment of the Moldovan identity question, see Charles King, The Moldovans: Romania, Russia and the Politics of Culture (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2002).
4. A total of 90 (24.4%) Supreme Soviet legislators were selected from the list supported by the Popular Front of Moldova. With the added votes of supporters among reform oriented Communist deputies, the Popular Front was able to command more than half of the votes in the new legislature and gain control of the government. William Crowther, "The Politics of Democratization in Post-communist Moldova", in Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrott, eds., Democratic changes and authoritarian reactions in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova (London: Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. 294.
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