Dimensiunea administrativă a expansionismului rusesc în Basarabia

Abstract

The administrative policy promoted by the Russian authorities in Bessarabia was closely linked to the developments and trends of the Russian’s internal and external policy. Based on the concrete and historical conditions of the moment and expected objectives, the tsarism has become aware that the pursuit of the colonial policy towards the annexed peoples requires the application of some subtler methods, different from those applied in the other regions of the Russian Empire. The expansionist interests of the Empire have largely determined the process of administrative organization of the Bessarabia: from the granting of the status of provisional administrative autonomy to the transformation into a Russian governorate.