Reviews Occasional Papers in Romanian Studies No. 3: Moldova, Bessarabia, Transnistria (2003), edited by Rebecca Haynes, which is the product of a conference held at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University College London and is comprised of five articles: “The Holocaust in Transnistria,” “The Moldovan Economy,” “Transnistria since 1990 as Seen from Chisinau,” “Security Concerns in Post-Soviet Moldova: The Roots of Instability,” and “The Conflict in the Transnistrian Region of the Republic of Moldova.” The first examines events of the Holocaust in Transnistria which occurred between 1941 and 1943, when 200,000 Jews perished in the region due to imposed starvation or mass murder. The second probes the impact of the Soviet Union’s policy of neglect in the former Moldovan Socialist Soviet Republic and Moldova’s difficult road from communism to capitalism. The third discusses the Communists’ efforts to spread “Romanophobia” in the region of Transnistria. The fourth considers the issue of Transnistria’s secession. The fifth asserts that the conflict in Transnistria began as more of a political and ideological conflict than an ethnic or national one, and that before long it acquired economic and strategic dimensions.
