Bessarabia – The Perennial Political Subject on the Romanian-Soviet Sensible Agenda

摘要

Aligned to the axiomatic premise that the Romanian-Soviet bilateral universe has always been marked by a corollary of sensible political topics, topics that have otherwise been, true points of divergence on the official talks between Romania and its Eastern Neighbor, in the present paper we have undertaken the bold engagement to examine the manner in which the Bessarabia problem, has represented such a sensible topic. In other words, the paper aims within an interdisciplinary research attempt, subsumed to an approach from the perspective of the historic semantics and hermeneutics, to highlight the manner in which the Bessarabia question has represented the true touchstone in the Romanian-Soviet bilateral dialogue, thus constituting one of the major historical difficulties that both states, involved in the process raised towards bilateralism, had to manage and implicitly to regulate in the early 90s. In this respect, our analytical horizon focuses particularly on the issue that regards Bessarabia’ s reunification with Romania, an issue that represented in the early 90s the real political challenge of the Romanian-Soviet bilateral dialogue as well as the main point on the Romanian-Soviet divergence map. Meanwhile, beyond the thorough approach regarding the controversial political topic of the Romanian-Soviet bilateral universe, the present research attempt tries to highlight the main causes that have led to the failure of the reunification Odyssey. Thus, in order to reveal the nodal vein of the paper, the present research attempt has a methodology configuration based on a diachronic, interpretive and comparative technique. Integrally, the research paper aims to reveal the manner in which the Bessarabia issue, namely the issue of a disputed territory, has represented since the early 90s, both a problematical political permanency of the Romanian-Soviet bilateral register as well as one of the most dominant, controversial and stringent themes of the Romanian-Soviet/Russian post-communist bilateral agenda.