Introduction1. The Early History and the Foundation of the Principality of Moldova
2. The Middle Ages: The Reigns of Alexander the Good and Stephen the Great
3. The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Moldova under Ottoman Suzerainty
4. Dimitrie Cantemir, Russia and Phanariot Rule
5. The Growth of Russian Influence in the Moldovan Principality
6. Russia and the Principalities after 1812 and the Growth of French Influence
7. Bessarabia under Russian Rule 1812-1918
8. Bessarabia and the 1918 Union with Romania
9. Interwar Bessarabia
10. Soviet Moldova
11. Post-Soviet Moldova and Ethnic Fragmentation
The Republic of Moldova ain the 21st Century and the Transnistrian Dispute
Index