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From Moldovanism to Europeanization? Moldova's Communists and Nation Building*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Luke March
Luke March*
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Department of Politics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9LL, UK. Email: l.march@ed.ac.uk
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The Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM) has been a highly controversial actor since its election in February 2001. The party initially governed under a hail of domestic and international criticism for its East-leaning foreign policy and authoritarian domestic politics. Yet, although with a diminished vote share, it was re-elected on 6 March 2005 in broadly free and fair elections on a pro-European platform with relations with Russia at a nadir.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 35 , Issue 4 , September 2007 , pp. 601 - 625
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Copyright © 2007 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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