Moldova

Rebecca Haynes is Senior Lecturer in Romanian History at the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies (SSEES), University College London. She is the author of Romanian Policy Towards Germany, 1936-40 and co-editor of In the Shadow of Hitler: Personalities of the Right in Central and Eastern Europe (I.B.Tauris).

• Introduction1. The Early History and the Foundation of the Principality of Moldova2. The Middle Ages: The Reigns of Alexander the Good and Stephen the Great3. The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Moldova under Ottoman Suzerainty4. Dimitrie Cantemir, Russia and Phanariot Rule5. The Growth of Russian Influence in the Moldovan Principality6. Russia and the Principalities after 1812 and the Growth of French Influence7. Bessarabia under Russian Rule 1812-19188. Bessarabia and the 1918 Union with Romania9. Interwar Bessarabia10. Soviet Moldova11. Post-Soviet Moldova and Ethnic FragmentationThe Republic of Moldova ain the 21st Century and the Transnistrian DisputeIndex

Moldova: A History is a thorough work that draws upon an often overlooked topic in modern scholarly thought and raises different issues that are crucial for understanding the Republic of Moldova’s behaviour on the international stage. The accessible writing, with explanations of basic terms and names, means that it will appeal to those who do not have any prior knowledge of the history of contemporary Moldova, and it is a useful addition to the available English-language literature on this contested borderland.