The Soviet occupation of Bessarabia in June 1940 resulted in a flood of refugees, some of whom left the region by train.

Editorial by Diana Dumitru and Petru Negura (PDF)

1812 and the Emergence of the Bessarabian Region: Province-Building under Russian Imperial Rule (PDF)
by Victor Taki

1878, Before and After: Romanian Nation-Building, Russian Imperial Policies, and Visions of Otherness in Southern Bessarabia (PDF)
by Andrei Cusco

Between the Empire and the Nation-State: Metamorphoses of the Bessarabian Elite (1918) (PDF)
by Svetlana Suveica

From a "Libertation" to Another. The Bessarabian Writers During the First Year of Soviet Power (1940-1941): Integration Strategies and Forms of Exclusion (PDF)
by Petru Negura

How the Bessarabians were Perceived by the Romanian Civilian-Military Administration in 1941 (PDF)
by Diana Dumitru

"The Quiet Revolution": Revisiting the National Identity Issue in Soviet Moldavia at the height of Khrushchev's Thaw (1956) (PDF)
by Igor Casu

1991: A Chronology of Moldova's independence (PDF)
by Sergiu Musteata

Justifying Separatism: The Year 1924, the Establishment of the Moldovan ASSR and History Politics in the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic (PDF)
by Alexandr Voronovich

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How to reference this issue:
Dumitru, Diana & Negura, Petru, eds. "Moldova: A Borderland's Fluid History." Euxeinos - Culture and Governance in the Black Sea Region, no. 15 (2014).