2007
DOI: 10.1080/00905990701475061
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From Moldovanism to Europeanization? Moldova's Communists and Nation Building*

Abstract: The Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM) has been a highly controversial actor since its election in February 2001. The party initially governed under a hail of domestic and international criticism for its East-leaning foreign policy and authoritarian domestic politics. Yet, although with a diminished vote share, it was re-elected on 6 March 2005 in broadly free and fair elections on a pro-European platform with relations with Russia at a nadir.

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“…The Moldovanist doctrine was officially abandoned as a legitimizing tool when it came to be the identity canon in Chisinau as of 2001, in its ‘neo’ version. As summarized by March (: 608), neo‐Moldovanists maintain that ‘the Moldovans […] achieved statehood in 1359 with the medieval Moldovan principality [which did not include the territory of Transnistria], some 500 years before the emergence of a unified Romanian state’ and that ‘[o]ver the course of centuries they intermingled peacefully with Russians, but conflicted with Romanian expansionism.’…”
Section: Nation‐building Step 1: Shifting Boundaries By Expanding Thementioning
confidence: 99%
“…The Moldovanist doctrine was officially abandoned as a legitimizing tool when it came to be the identity canon in Chisinau as of 2001, in its ‘neo’ version. As summarized by March (: 608), neo‐Moldovanists maintain that ‘the Moldovans […] achieved statehood in 1359 with the medieval Moldovan principality [which did not include the territory of Transnistria], some 500 years before the emergence of a unified Romanian state’ and that ‘[o]ver the course of centuries they intermingled peacefully with Russians, but conflicted with Romanian expansionism.’…”
Section: Nation‐building Step 1: Shifting Boundaries By Expanding Thementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ennek ellenhatásaként körvonalazódott egy orosz orientáció mellett érvelő (a régi struktúrák fenntartásában vagy azok minél szélesebb körű átmentésében érdekelt) politikai csoportosulás is. Ők döntő többségükben a Dnyeszteren túli területek és a főváros kommunista elitjéből, illetve a moldáv többség ellenében a korábban a szovjet rendszertől engedményeket kapó gagauz és bolgár kisebbség köreiből verbuválódtak (March 2007).…”
Section: A Szovjet Embereszménytől Az öNálló Identitásigunclassified
“…Defining the content of the national body has been a permanent aspect of Moldovan political and public life and has passed through a fight, among other issues, over the name of the language spoken by the majority of the inhabitants of the country, over the interpretation and teaching of history, as well as over monuments and public holidays (Ciscel 2006;Ihrig 2007;March, 2007). Schematically, while Moldovanism today is mainly to be found among the members of the Communist Party of Moldova in power between 2001 and 2009, Romanianism can mainly be found among parties who oppose the Communists and who are now the leaders of the government coalitions in place since 2009.…”
Section: The Moldovan Identity Crisismentioning
confidence: 99%