Greater Romania (political concept)
The concept of Greater Romania[1][2] (Romanian: România Mare) is a Romanian nationalist and irredentist ideology. Its main goal is the creation of a "Greater Romania"[3] which would incorporate all Romanian speakers. It is the guiding principle for reunification of Moldova and Romania.[3] The concept shows similarities to the idea of national state.[2]
According to Livezeanu the creation of Greater Romania with "a unifying concept of nationhood" started to evolve in the late 1910s.[4] Significant groups of Romanians could not become part of the Romanian state and did not participate in the modern nation-building process.[4] These groups became subjects of assimilation in the neighboring countries (Serbia, Hungary or Ukraine) or took part in different nation-state projects (as in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic).[4]
The ideology of National Communism was also connected to this concept.[citation needed]
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- ↑ Irina Livezeanu, Cultural Politics in Greater Romania: Regionalism, Nation Building & Ethnic Struggle, 1918-1930, Cornell University Press, 2000, p. 4
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Petre Berteanu, Romanian nationalism and political communication: Greater Romania Party (Partidul Romania Mare), a case-study, In: Jaroslav Hroch, David Hollan, George F. McLean, National, Cultural, and Ethnic Identities: Harmony Beyond Conflict, CRVP, 1998, pp. 161-176
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Keith Hitchins, A Concise History of Romania, Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp. 166-298
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Tristan James Mabry, John McGarry, Margaret Moore, Brendan O'Leary, Divided Nations and European Integration, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013, p. 117
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