Habersack, Sabine - Puşcaş, Vasile - Ciubotă, Viorel (szerk.): Democraţia in Europa centrală şi de Sud-Est - Aspiraţie şi realitate (Secolele XIX-XX) (Satu Mare, 2001)

Maria Danilov: Istorism retrospectiv şi problema conceptelor democratice în Başarabia (sf. sec. XIX - înc. sec. XX.)

Maria Danilov

ideological impact of policy of terror and isolation on Bessarabia during the century of foreign domination was decisive. Being a part of the Russian empire, Bessarabia has a social-political movement that promoted nationaldemocratic ideas only during the first Russian revolution, in 1905-1907.

The ideas about Authonomy, Freedom, National school promoted by the national-democratic group of „Bessarabia “s “newspaper (1906) and by the liberal group led by L. Stamati (1907) -are those ideas that persisted in the mentality of all dominated in the empire. In this sense, for Bessarabian Romanians, the Russian revolution was an instrument for valorification of their own goals and ideals: the national idea is a manifestation of the ideas of democracy and modernism.

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