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LUCIA SAVA, Viaţa cotidiană în oraşul Chişinău la - Asociatia ...

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<strong>Viaţa</strong> <strong>cotidiană</strong> <strong>în</strong> <strong>oraşul</strong> <strong>Chişinău</strong> <strong>la</strong> <strong>în</strong>ceputul secoului al XX-lea (1900-1918)<br />

223<br />

just in the same census of 1897, when it was found that the number of card<br />

ştiutorilor represent 15.6% of the total popu<strong>la</strong>tion of the province, while the<br />

entire Russian Empire was 21.1 % and the European province of Russia taken<br />

together, was slightly higher, 22.9%. Assessed in terms of literacy, Bessarabia<br />

is ranked 45 of the 50 governorates in the European part of Russia’s autocratic.<br />

Reader’s number of books in the urban popu<strong>la</strong>tion constituted 32.8%<br />

of Bessarabia, while they were in Chisinau 39.3% of total city popu<strong>la</strong>tion,<br />

49.1% were male and only 28.6% were the people females (only 20.4% in<br />

Chisinau county were literate).<br />

1.1.4. Mentality and national identity. Nationalism as a legitimate<br />

political doctrine and the concept of ethnic identity as one of its constituent<br />

elements occur as a result of the French Revolution and coincide with the<br />

period in which parts of Bessarabia by the Russian Empire, the Principality of<br />

Moldavia. Thus, Bessarabia was iso<strong>la</strong>ted from the rest of Europe even during<br />

the national idea, of ethnic identity and pride of belonging to a community<br />

with the same <strong>la</strong>nguage, culture, traditions and rights of each such communities<br />

to create their own state gaining more and more <strong>la</strong>nd in Europe. This<br />

situation resulted essentially de<strong>la</strong>y the emergence of national consciousness<br />

in Romanian Bessarabia, in the sense of political consciousness. There were<br />

also other factors, which according to historian Igor Casu contributed to that<br />

phenomenon: low rate of urbanization of the local popu<strong>la</strong>tion, mass illiteracy,<br />

<strong>la</strong>ck of a standard <strong>la</strong>nguage of communication, <strong>la</strong>ck of Romanian <strong>la</strong>nguage<br />

press, information considered by some authors essential to the emergence<br />

of imagined communities, and is the nation. Furthermore, a factor usually<br />

triggered ethnic differentiation processes in other regions - the colonization<br />

of foreign elements - had little impact on kin. Unlike other Romanian provinces<br />

disposed (eg, unknown), where there are clear religious differentiation<br />

in Russian Bessarabia most settlers - Russians, Ukrainians, Bulgarians - were<br />

the same religious denomination, Christian Church, which has resulted from<br />

local popu<strong>la</strong>tion an acute perception that the arrivals were clearly foreign,<br />

respectively, were not absolute otherness.<br />

There is still no systematic data on the crossroads Basarabians mentality<br />

XIX-XX centuries. However, foreigners who have known Bessarabia, shortly<br />

after 1812, &quot;boasted simplicity, steadfastness in ancient faith, courage<br />

against death and obedience to authority. (P. Cazacu).<br />

According to witnesses period, the Moldovan national consciousness of<br />

Bessarabia was not able to express freely under the Russian tsars. Moldovan

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