Making ethnicity in southern Bessarabia : : tracing the histories of an ambiguous concept in a contested land /

Making ethnicity in southern Bessarabia : : tracing the histories of an ambiguous concept in a contested land / / by Simon Schlegel.

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In Making Ethnicity, Simon Schlegel offers a history of ethnicity and its political uses in southern Bessarabia, a region that has long been at the crossroads of powerful forces: in the 19th century between the Russian and Ottoman Empires, since World War I between the Soviet Union and Romania, and...

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Superior document:Eurasian Studies Library; volume14
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Schlegel, Simon,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Eurasian Studies Library; volume14.
Physical Description:1 online resource (286 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Maps and Figures
  • Notes
  • Introduction
  • Administering the Periphery from Horseback
  • Persuasion and Paranoia—Romania’s Rule in Bessarabia 1918–44
  • Politically Desirable Theory and Its Way into Folk Theory
  • Ethnic Minorities and Soviet Newcomers
  • Post-Soviet Instability, Clientelism and the Persistence of Ethnic Boundaries
  • The Narratives and Techniques that Maintain Ethnic Boundaries
  • Conclusion—Delimiting Ethnic Groups as a Tool of Statecraft
  • References
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Subjects and Names.

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