Russians, Romanians, or Neither? Mobilization of Ethnicity and "National Indifference" in Early 20th-Century Bessarabia.

The article discusses the various forms of resistance to and noninvolvement in strategies of national mobilization in early 20th-century Bessarabia. It mentions attempts to attract the local Romanian-speaking peasantry to Russian monarchist and right-wing organizations, which succeeded to a much greater extent than similar efforts by nationalist activists. It also mentions multiple forms of national indifference in Russian borderlands before World War I.