A book by Lidia Prisac, which centers on how the Transnistrian separatism is treated in works of authors from Moldova, the West or of pro-separatism historians and also on Russia’s role in the Transnistrian conflict was launched at the National Library of the Republic of Moldova, IPN reports.
The book “Historiography of Transnistrian Separatism” (1989-2005)”, the second edition, contains three chapters. University lecturer Liliana Rotaru said the first chapter is about the Transnistrian separatism covered by Moldovan authors. This ends with the depicting of the economic and geopolitical dimensions of the event. The second chapter goes beyond the narrow borders of the Republic of Moldova and makes a difference between the historiographic narration – the European and American ones and the Romanian one, focusing more on Russia’s role in this conflict. The third chapter covers pro-separatism publications and works by historians from the Republic of Moldova who promote the cause of Transnistrian separatism.
Liliana Rotaru noted it is very important to shed light on the historical events and processes and to prevent the instrumentalization of history and manipulation of people. The work is a combination of history and politics.
Author Lidia Prisac said the approach to the Transnistrian conflict can be divided into three levels. The first level includes the small players who were affected and marked by that war. The second level concerns the political class, while the third level refers to the scientific perspective of the subject.
The project took shape in 2006. The first edition of the book appeared in 2008, in a small number of copies, in Iasi. The second edition includes works that appeared after 2005. The author noted that as long as the conflict is frozen, works will appear and this subject will have another scope if taking into account what’s happening in Ukraine.
University professor Anatol Petrencu said the author of the book ascertains that the conflict with the separatist regime is not ethnic or linguistic in character and there is provided evidence that the people from Tiraspol started to study Romanian (Moldovan). It is a proof that the Russian speakers accepted the national renaissance, independence idea, but the political and geopolitical factors stopped the process of harmonizing the relations and placed obstacles to the further democratization of the Republic of Moldova, for fear of the union with Romania.
Today it is celebrated the 29th anniversary of the start of the Nistru armed conflict of 1992.
