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