Direcția gubernială a corpului independent de jandarmi din Basarabia vs. mișcarea de emancipare națională a ucrainenilor, armenilor și polonezilor
Governmental Directorate of the Independent Gendarmi Corps of Bessarabia Vs. the National Emancipation Movement of Ukrainians, Armenians and Poles

Summary/Abstract: Based on the unpublished documentary material, collected by the author in the National Archives of the Republic of Moldova, an attempt is made to investigate some hitherto lesser-known aspects of the surveillance and combating by the Governmental Directorate of the Independent Gendarmerie Corps of Bessarabia of the national emancipation movement of Ukrainians, Armenians and Bessarabian Poles. At the beginning of the 20th century, Ukrainians were the second nation, by population, representing 19.75% of the entire population of Bessarabia. The Armenian and Polish diasporas were also numerous. All these years, these peoples preserved their language, culture, and national traditions. Due to this, the Russian authorities treated them with suspicion of separatism, exposing them to forced assimilation, deportations, expulsions, reprisals, and arrests of representatives of the national current.

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