Constituirea şi activitatea Asociaţiei generale a studenţilor moldoveni/români din Basarabia (1917-1918)
The foundation and the activity of the general Association of the Moldavian/Romanian students from Bessarabia (1917-1918)

Summary/Abstract: After the abolition of autocracy in the Russian Empire, the Moldovan students from the higher education institutions registered a spectacular evolution on the political and the national fields. Abandoning their status of Russian revolutionaries, they founded the General Association of Moldovan Students (May 1917), initially manifesting themselves as Moldovan revolutionaries; then they accomplished their revolutionary career as artisans of the Romanian national unity (March 1918).The Association of Moldovan / Romanian Students from Bessarabia has been involved in activities aimed to cultivate the national consciousness and identity, the national unity. Thus the young students expressed their desire to live freely in the national territory, offering the same perspective to their generations. The spectacular trajectory of the student movement in Bessarabia was favored by a number of internal and external factors. The international conjuncture – World War I, the relatively democratic framework in place after the Russian revolution of February 1917, the dismemberment of the Russian Empire and the establishment of a restrictive and anarchist regime after the Bolsheviks took power – all favored the social activism of the Romanian students from Bessarabia.During the complicated and complex political situation of the years 1917–1918, the young students from Prut and Dniester, members of the General Association of Moldovan / Romanian Students from Bessarabia, manifested themselves as a strong social force, which contributed to the change of the destiny of the Bessarabian population, opting for a natural national development and European integration.

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