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Administrative Developments in Moldova Between Prut and Dniester, Between Russification and Europeanization
Administrative Developments in Moldova Between Prut and Dniester, Between Russification and Europeanization

Author(s): Ana-Maria Ambrosă
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Public Administration, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Administrative Law
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: administration; centralism; decentralization; Europeanism; Russification;

Summary/Abstract: Occupied by Tsarist Russia in 1812, returned to the Romanian national state in 1918 and then transformed into a Soviet republic (1940-41 and 1944-1991), the region between Prut and Dniester evolved administratively along two contradictory models: one authoritarian centralist, the other democratic and decentralizing. The imprint of a century and a half of Russian rule has remained disturbingly visible in the post-Soviet period, blocking the process of modernization of Moldovan society and keeping the Moldovan state in a precarious functional situation.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 30
  • Page Range: 1-14
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English