Transnistria and Moldova: The Origins of a Frozen Conflict Part

Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with an examination of the origins of Moldova and Transnistria, from the 18th Century under the Russian Empire and then into the 20th Century, between Romania and the Soviet Union. We examine the conditions that would lead to war and then a frozen conflict after the dismantling of the Soviet Union.

Cold War Mongolia: https://youtu.be/B3CNKYy7V2w
The Soviet Economy: Brezhnev, Oil, & Stagnation: https://youtu.be/NUUZCD_XfjI
The Soviet Economy: Revolution to Khrushchev: https://youtu.be/2arxTSPhr6g
How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People: https://youtu.be/qIZDa7ZcUhE
How Khrushchev Housed Everyone: https://youtu.be/lazVrmC7IVQ
Soviet Tourism: https://youtu.be/t9KrH-xG20Q
Soviet Passport System: New Serfdom or Reform?: https://youtu.be/Dgr9F3WFsbo
Soviet Education System: https://youtu.be/AD_JwbivtMA
Communist Girl Scouts of America: https://youtu.be/QvgEHc0iyoQ
ASALA, Armenia Secret Army: https://youtu.be/DFzIVfTNjH0
Amchitka Island Nuclear Test: https://youtu.be/Z89YnSS5RQA
Soviet Criminal Underworld: https://youtu.be/zEJrivfLKGc
Project Iceworm: Nukes Under the Ice: https://youtu.be/ePT8gp0LKsk
Haiti and the Dominican Republic: https://youtu.be/apgYxvtDFQY
Red Army Faction: https://youtu.be/wgYfTQJYCkI
Colonial Indochina to 1945: https://youtu.be/uijOG8oYHgo
First Indochina War pt. 1 GUERILLA: https://youtu.be/V9wSqx0W8h0
First Indochina War pt. 2 INTERNATIONALIZATION: https://youtu.be/58PAc7zAtSg
Alcohol Prohibition in the USSR https://youtu.be/kyPdGderIxk
Cocaine and Cartels: https://youtu.be/A9VA51N-Ug4
International Terrorism: https://youtu.be/VqHMjA35aLM
Liberation Theology: https://youtu.be/Dfu2I_LTKt4


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**SOURCES**
Rebecca Hayes, Moldova: A History (I.B. Tauris, 2020)

Serhy Yekelchyk, “The western republics: Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and the Baltics” in Ronald Grigor Suny (ed.), The Cambridge History of Russia, Volume III: The Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2008)

Charles King, The Moldovans: Romania, Russia, and the Politics of Culture (Hoover Institution Press, 2000)

Alexander Voronovich, “Justifying Separatism: The Year 1924, the Establishment of the Moldovan ASSR and History Politics in the Transnistrian Moldovan Republic,” Euxeinos 15/16 (2014)

Steven D. Roper, “The politicisation of education: Identity formation in Moldova and Transnistria,” Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol.38 (2005)

Igor Casu, Nationality Policy in Soviet Moldova: 1944-1989 (University of Iasi, 2000)