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The Moldavian SSR's drive towards independence from the USSR was marked by civil strife as conservative activists in the east —especially in Tiraspol—as well as communist party activists in Chișinău worked to keep the Moldavian SSR within the Soviet Union.
On August 2, 1940, the Soviet Union established the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (Moldavian SSR), which consisted of six counties of Bessarabia joined with the westernmost part (with an area of 4,118 km 2 (1,590 sq mi)) of what had been the MASSR, effectively dissolving it.
One of the 15 former Soviet republics, situated in the southwestern USSR between Romania and Ukraine and bounded by the Prut River in the west and, roughly, by the Dnister River in the east. Its area was 33,700 sq km, and its 1989 population was 4,335,000, 47 percent of it urban.
The 1989 civil unrest in Moldavia began on November 7, 1989, in Chișinău (then known as "Kishinev"), Moldavia and continued on November 10, when protesters burned down the headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (led by Vladimir Voronin).
Under Mikhail Gorbachev's administration of the Soviet Union, from 1985 until its collapse in 1991, the Moldovan Popular Front formed in 1989, to win a majority in the first democratic elections to the Moldavian SSR's Supreme Soviet, in February 1990. Transnistria, the part of Moldova east of the Dniester River, declared independence from ...
in this sense—that up until the end of the Soviet Union, local nation-alism and not Great Russian nationalism was perceived by Moscow as the greatest danger to the cohesion and the very existence of the USSR. This was the case at lest of Moldavian SSR as I will try to show further in this article.
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Aug 16, 2004 · When Bessarabia became part of the Soviet Empire after World War II, it was known as the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldavia. With post-Soviet independence in 1991, it became simply Moldova or the Republic of Moldova (or Moldavia).
