Moldova: A Romanian Province under Russian Rule - Hardcover

Mitrasca, Marcel

9781892941879: Moldova: A Romanian Province under Russian Rule

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ISBN 10: 1892941872 ISBN 13: 9781892941879

Verlag: Algora Publishing, 2002

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Moldova: A Romanian Province under Russian Rule offers a rare, document‑based reconstruction of one of Europe’s most contested borderlands: Bessarabia. Historian Marcel Mitrasca traces how this largely rural province, once part of the medieval principality of Moldavia, became a bargaining chip between empires, a cornerstone of Greater Romania, and finally a casualty of great‑power politics in 1940.

The book opens with clear chronologies covering Bessarabia’s path from Ottoman and Russian domination to its union with Romania in 1918, and the complex debates at the Paris Peace Conference where the “Bessarabian Question” first confronted the victorious Allies. Mitrasca then follows the birth, negotiation, and ultimate failure of the 1920 Bessarabian Treaty, showing how a single clause requiring ratification by all signatories allowed Japan’s later refusal to keep the treaty from ever entering into force.

A major strength of the work is its systematic treatment of each great power’s position. Separate chapters examine the Soviet Union’s unyielding claim to Bessarabia, Britain’s balancing act between legal principle and strategic interest, France’s shifting priorities, Italy’s hard bargaining over compensation and alliances, Japan’s quiet but decisive use of the issue in its negotiations with Moscow, and the United States’ refusal to endorse any dismemberment of former Russian territory. Throughout, Romanian diplomatic strategies, regional alliances such as the Little Entente and the Balkan Entente, and League of Nations tactics are carefully woven into the narrative.

Author Marcel Mitrasca, a scholar of diplomatic history, is fluent in Japanese, Romanian, French and English, and conducted extensive archival research in the original languages at Babes-Bolyai University in Romania and while a visiting scholar in Tokyo; he teaches Political Sciences at the Coll�gial International Sainte-Anne in Quebec.

This book will appeal to scholars and students of East European and Russian history, international relations specialists interested in minority treaties and border settlements after World War I, and general readers who want to understand how a seemingly marginal province shaped the fate of an entire region. It is also a valuable resource for anyone studying Romanian-Soviet relations and the long prehistory of today’s disputes over Moldova and its neighbors.

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