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- Title
ASPECTE ALE ANEXĂRII BASARABIEI DE CĂTRE IMPERIUL ŢARIST ÎN 1812. DETERMINĂRI ASUPRA CULTURII, LIMBII ŞI ÎNVĂŢĂMÂNTULUI ÎN AREALUL ROMÂNESC DINTRE PRUT ŞI NISTRU.
- Authors
Preja, Ramona
- Abstract
The study offers a digest of Bessarabia's history after its annexation by the Russian Empire (1812) and during the 19th century, illustrated by valuable statistical data concerning especially the population and the educational system. The administrative measures adopted by the tzarist occupation authorities were accompanied by a demographic politics of colonization. On one hand, the Romanian population crossed in large numbers the Prut river, taking refuge to the Romanian Principalities; on the other hand, the tzars Alexander I and Nicholas I brought to Bessarabia foreign colonists from Switzerland (Lausanne), France, Greece, Poland. Mass colonizations of Bulgarians, Germans, Jews and Gagauzians were intended to change the demographical balance and to pave the way to Russification. In spite of their difficult political and national situation in Bessarabia, the Romanians manifested active resistance to Russification by culture, as they managed to continue editing books even if in small numbers, preserving the Romanian language in their primary and secondary schools, as well as in their churches. The passive resistance was reflected in the refuse of the Romanian population to learn and use the Russian language.
- Subjects
BESSARABIA (Moldova &; Ukraine); BULGARIANS; RUSSIFICATION; ROMANIAN language; COLONIZATION; IMPERIALISM; EDUCATION; HISTORY
- Publication
Yearbook of George Baritiu Institute of History in Cluj-Napoca, Series Historica, 2013, Vol 52, p19
- ISSN
1584-4390
- Publication type
Article