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Lidia PRISAC: Institute of history, language and literature. Scientifically… 295
The unique-party status of the Soviet power called for ideologically substantiating its
activity and preparing the staff for the average school, which made them ask from the
workers in the research environment “...the political rise of the Institute collaborators xxix .
This way, in default of sufficiently well trained staff in terms of Marxist-Leninist
teaching, it comes to attracting important specialists from Moscow and Leningrad xxx .
Ethnically, in IILL constituency, allogeneic elements prevailed. According to the
archive documents, from December 14, 1945, of the 19 employees of IMCŞ, 7 were Jew,
4 were Russian, 3 were Ukrainian and 5 were Moldavian xxxi . This way, the number of
Moldavians was insignificant compared to the allogeneous, and the human scientific
potential was pre-eminently completed with representatives of the other republics. Things
did not change much even later on. In 1949, of the number of 112 collaborators of the
Moldavian Scientific Subsidiary, only 50 were scientific researchers xxxii . At union scale,
in 1950 according to the statistics, only 126 Moldavians activated as scientific
researchers, subsequently their figure was constantly growing. This way, in 1955, a
number of 305 Moldavian scientific researchers activated in the academic
environment xxxiii .
As regards the historians’ writings, through the law-enforcement and security organs PC
“helps” them acquire the Leninist conception on the historical process, the Marxist
research methods, so that the policy of the Soviet State in terms of science dictated the
content, form and research methods. The research themes at IILL of the Moldavian
Scientific Basis of USSR’s AŞ referred to Moldavia’s history as part of USSR, the
development of the capitalism in Moldavia, the revolutionary movement, the installation
of the Soviet power etc.
In the attempt to explain why part of the autochthonous historians were concerned, in
their researches, with older epochs, especially those having written on the Middle Ages,
we might say they were less oppressed by the official propaganda, whilst those who were
compelled to write about the proximate past, completely dissolved in this machinery of
lie xxxiv . Thus, in broad terms, the set of themes suited the political requirements of the
communist party.
Activity of the Institute of History, Language and Literature. In early postwar years,
the priority of the Soviet historians from Chişinău consisted of harshly condemning the
Romanian administration during wartime, combined with continuously defaming the
“Romanian-boyard occupation” upon Bessarabia during 1918–1940. In parallel, the
secular friendship relations between the “great Russian people and the Moldavian
people” xxxv were praised.
The turning point, we dare say, in propagandistically substantiating the historical
science in Soviet Moldavia was the Plenary Decision CC of PCM from August 27-29,
1947 as regards elaborating a synthesis of Moldavian history.
Although Prof. N. NarŃov from the Pedagogic Institute of Chişinău had previously
declared that he had elaborated a history textbook of Moldavia, ready for publication, this
work was rejected, imputing to the author that had not invented an ethnogenesis of the