Edited sentence: During the Soviet period, the education system in Moldova was used.Indeed, one of the important agents of identity formation and socialization is education.The leadership has used these issues to cultivate a separate Transnistrian identity among youth and to socialize the population towards a Russian political space, rejecting European demands for democratization and conflict resolution.There is a large political science literature that examines the impact that education.Transnistrian socialization has used traditional.Transnistria’s ethnic composition is unlike the rest of Moldova, and the region.as a means to russify the indigenous titular population through the use of Russian language.as the principle means of instruction.came to the country in the 1980s and 1990s (Note: Significantly, much of the current Transnistrian leadership, including Igor Smirnov, were born and raised in Russia and therefore not surprisingly have a different and hostile view of Moldovan identity and culture.does not share the same interwar history as the rest of the country as part of socalled.has on group identity formation as well as on the process of individual political.instruments including the media and school.that currently reside in Transnistria were not born in Moldova and only recently.‘‘Greater Romania.’’ Moreover, many of the ethnic Russians and Ukrainians