Post-imperial encounters
| Titel: | Post-imperial encounters : transnational designs of Bessarabia in Paris and elsewhere, 1917-1922 / Svetlana Suveica |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022 |
| Umfang: | 509 Seiten : Illustrationen |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Südosteuropäische Arbeiten ; 167 |
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| ISBN: | 9783111166339 ; 3111166333 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis Abstract Cover Register Buch Bibliographie |
X
- Acknowledgements
- 9
- Editorial Remarks
- 11
- Introduction
- 13
- Historlographic Remarks
- 17
- After Empire, Before the Nation-State. Rupture and Continuity
- 17
- Self-Determination: Perceptions from Paris and the Contested Eastern European Regions
- 23
- Elite(s) in Transition: Imperial, National, and Regional
- 28
- The Bessarabian Elite in Historiography
- 34
- Theoretical & Methodological Framework
- 43
- Transition as Liminality. The Bessarabian Elite in 1917-1918
- 45
- Post-War Transnationalism. Redesigning Bessarabia's Borders in Paris and Elsewhere
- 47
- Post-Imperial Interconnectedness. The Bessarabian-Russian Network
- 53
- The Sources of the Book
- 55
- The Book's Structure
- 60
- 1
- The Drama
- 65
- The "Bessarabian Question" in Paris (July 1919)
- 65
- The "Bessarabian Question." Romanians' vs Russian Whites' Expectations
- 67
- A Plebiscite for Bessarabia?!
- 72
- Behind the Political Scene. Bessarabians in the French Capital
- 77
- The Hearing in the Press
- 81
- 2
- Liminality
- 91
- The Bessarabian Elite from the Empire to the Nation-State
- 91
- The Elite in the Russian Imperial Borderland
- 92
- The Turmoil. Subvening Traditional Hierarchies, Overcoming Existential Challenges
- 117
- 3
- Illusion
- 159
- For the Preservation of Regional Autonomy
- 159
- "Bessarabia for the Bessarabians"?!
- 161
- Landowners' Participation in the Agrarian Commission of the Sfatul Tarii (1917-1918)
- 171
- Local Public Institutions During Autonomy
- 178
- Autonomy Within Ukraine under Skoropadskyi?!
- 184
- 4
- Hope
- 195
- Russkoe Delo and the "Bessarabian Cause"
- 195
- The "Bessarabian Delegation" to the Peace Conference
- 198
- Bessarabia on the (Anti-Bolshevik) Agenda of the Whites
- 212
- Russian Political Figures Outside Paris on the "Bessarabian Question"
- 234
- 5
- Struggle
- 255
- The Activity of the "Bessarabian Delegation" in Paris and Elsewhere
- 255
- For the "Bessarabian Cause"
- 257
- The Bessarabian "Delegates" in the Press Debate
- 277
- Acknowledging the Loss. The London Declaration of March 3, 1920, and its Aftermath
- 295
- 6
- The Network
- 305
- Interracting for the "Bessarabian Cause"
- 305
- Analysing and Visualising Relationships. The Russian-Bessarabian Network
- 307
- The Swiss Cluster
- 312
- 7
- Ambivalence
- 341
- The Bessarabian (Post-Imperial) Elite between Protest and Compromise
- 341
- For the "Holy and Just Cause!" The Letters of Pantelimon V. Sinadino to Alexander N. Krupenskii
- 344
- The Union of Large Landowners, the (Dissolved) Governorate Zemstvo, the Cooperatives, and the Church
- 352
- The Activity of the Odessa Committee for the Liberation of Bessarabia
- 363
- Responses and Actions by the National Minorities
- 366
- 8
- The Loss
- 381
- (Self-)Identification and Belonging after Empire
- 381
- Defending the Symbols of Empire
- 385
- "Russians by Name and in the Soul"
- 390
- The "Last" Russian Monarchist: Alexander N. Krupenskii
- 394
- Epilogue
- 405
- Making a Case for the "Russian Subjecrs" of Bessarabia at the League of Nations (1922)
- 405
- Conclusions
- 411
- Abbreviations
- 425
- Illustrations
- 427
- Annexes
- 431
- References
- 441
- Unpublished Primary Sources
- 441
- Published Primary Sources
- 444
- Secondary Sources
- 452
- Index of names
- 491
- Index of subjects and places
- 499
