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merged with the Eastern indigenous Slavic population would have called about the
Moldavian ethnogenesis xl .
The Russian and Slavish influence on historical Moldavia was overwhelming; all
political and cultural leaders of this land were supposed to have been influenced by the
“great Russian people and its advanced culture”. The pro-Russian attachment culminated
in interpreting Bessarabia’s annexation, in 1812, as positive factor, (by the influence of
the Russian intellectuality) despite all vices xli . At the same time, the content of the work
was also prevailed by the fact that they attempted to prove the local roots of Bessarabia’s
revolutionary movement, although many revolutionaries were known to be Ukrainian and
Russian – Grigori Kotovski was presented as famous son of the Moldavian people, even
if he was Russian.
As regards the period of Soviet-power establishment, the Moldavian historians
“discovered” that the Soviet authorities officially took over the power at Chişinău on
January 14, 1918. This new myth legitimated that by 1940, Bessarabia was “liberated”
and the Soviet power was restored xlii .
After the elaboration of the work, on September 3, 1949, the Board CC of PC(b)
adopted the Decision Despre editarea machetei primei părŃi a manualului „Curs de
istorie a Moldovei” (On Editing the Model of the First Part of the Textbook “History
Course of Moldavia”) settling the issuance term on September 15. The Board compelled
the “propaganda and agitation section of CC of PC(b) from Moldavia (comrade
Cernenko) to organize an “ample discussion” of the model in the republic’s scientific and
didactic environment xliii so that, subsequently, the concept should be recognized and
approved by the entire society. At the same time, the model of the work was dispatched to
the universities and scientific institutions from Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Odesa, Kazan,
CernăuŃi, Minsk, Tbilisi, Taşkent and other towns whence dozens of notices, observations
and desiderata came, taken into account when writing the manuscript.
Editing the model inscribed in the series of actions consecrated to the 25-year jubilee
since MSSR’s establishment, whose roots dated back in 1924, when RASSM was
constituted. On this occasion, CC of PC(b) published a material for the party
propagandists, entitled Douăzeci şi cinci de ani ai RSS Moldoveneşti (Moldavian RSS’s
Twenty-Five Years) xliv .
By the end of 1949, from the Institute of History of the USSR’s Academy of Sciences,
which was the main research centre in the field of history, at CC PC(b) from MSSR , a
letter came with the announcement that discussing the model of Moldavia’s History will
take place after having delegated and confirmed some persons’ names for participating in
the discussion. This way, at Moscow, was delegated the authorship A. Lazarev, president
of the Synthesis-Elaboration Commission, N. Mohov, I. Grosul, D. Şemiakov and N.
Berezneakov xlv . In January 1950, the enunciated persons assisted at discussing the model
of the first volume of Moldavia’s History at the Institutes of History from Kiev, Moscow
and Leningrad xlvi . From them, the Moldavian collaborators received “precious
recommendation and advice”, that they were to consider whilst elaborating the synthesis.
According to those invited to comment on the “model”, the use of the term „Moldavia”