The dissolution of the Soviet Union and complex state construction processes. Two differentiated secession models in the Republic of Moldova: Gagauzia and Transnistria.

Abstract

El objetivo de este articulo es analizar un desconocido caso de dos diferentes procesos secesionistas en la República de Moldova-Transnistria y Gagauzia- arrancando en el marco de descomposición de la Unión Soviética. Ambos emergieron como una brusca reacción a la irrupción del nacionalismo rumano pro-rumano con un evidente carácter irredentista.The purpose of this article is to analyse an unknown case of two different secessionist processes in the Republic of Moldova-Transnistria and Gagauzia- started in the framework of the decomposition of the Soviet Union. Both of them emerged as a virulent reaction to the irruption of a pro-romanian moldovan nationalism with a radical irredentism character.