Contents:

Moldova: A Borderland‘s Fluid History
Editorial by Diana Dumitru and Petru Negura, “Ion Creangă” State Pedagogical University, Chișinău

1812 and the Emergence of the Bessarabian Region: Province-Building under Russian Imperial Rule
by Victor Taki, King’s University College, Edmonton

1878, Before and After: Romanian Nation-Building, Russian Imperial Policies, and Visions of Otherness in Southern Bessarabia
by Andrei Cuşco, Moldova State University, Chișinău

Between the Empire and the Nation-State: Metamorphoses of the Bessarabian Elite (1918)
by Svetlana Suveică, Moldova State University, Chișinău

From a ‚Liberation‘ to Another. The Bessarabian Writers During the First Year of Soviet Power (1940–1941): Integration Strategies and Forms of Exclusion
by Petru Negură, “Ion Creangă” State Pedagogical University, Chișinău

How the Bessarabians Were Perceived by the Romanian Civilian-Military Administration in 1941
by Diana Dumitru, “Ion Creangă” State Pedagogical University, Chișinău

”The Quiet Revolution”: Revisiting the National Identity Issue in Soviet Moldavia at the height of Khrushchev’s Thaw (1956)
by Igor Cașu, State University of Moldova, Chișinău

1991: A Chronology of Moldova’s Independence
by Sergiu Musteaţă, ”Ion Creangă” State Pedagogical University, Chișinău

Justifying Separatism: The Year 1924, the Establishment of the Moldovan ASSR and History Politics in the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic
by Alexandr Voronovichi, “Ion Creangă” State Pedagogical University, Chișinău