REMEMBRANCE IN TIME - Index of

COJOCARU COMMISSION
Viorica OLARU-CEMÎRTAN 1
Condemning communism, as social-political phenomenon that affected Eastern Europe
and especially the captive countries in the soviet colossus, was a priority on Europe’s
academic and political agenda. In most these countries, at the given moment, academic,
research institutions and funds activate to reveal to the world what the scourge of
international communism and its crimes against humanity meant. On 14 January 2011,
through the Decree of the interim President of the Republic of Moldavia, Mihai Ghimpu,
the Commission for studying and assessing the totalitarian communist regime in the
Republic of Moldavia was formed. This event had been studied for longer time by the
country’s academic, civil community and it was an opportunity for debates.
The constituency of the commission : president - Gheorghe Cojocaru, doctor in history,
vice-president - Igor Caşu, doctor in history, vice-president - Sergiu MusteaŃă, doctor in
history, secretary - Mihail Taşca, doctor in law
Members of the commission : Vasile Bahnaru, habilitated doctor in philology, Vladimir
Beşleagă, writer, Ion Casian, lawyer, Sergiu Chrică, doctor habilitated in economics, Lilia
Crudu, political scientist, Andrei Cuşco, doctor in history, Demir Dragnev, doctor
habilitated in history, Nicolae Enciu, doctor habilitated in history, Andrei Eşanu, doctor
habilitated in history, Victor Juc, doctor in philosophy, Alexandru Moşanu, doctor
habilitated in history, Gheorghe Negru, doctor in history, Petru Negură, doctor in
sociology, Viorica Olaru-Cemîrtan, doctor in history, Gheorghe Palade, doctor in history,
Pavel Parasca, doctor habilitated in history, Anatol Petrencu, doctor habilitated in
history, Elena Postica, doctor in history, Ion Sârbu, doctor habilitated in philosophy,
Andrei Smochină, doctor habilitated in law, Veaceslav Stăvilă, doctor in history, Igor
Şarov, doctor in history, Ion Şişcanu, doctor habilitated in history, Ludmila Tihonov,
doctor in history, Octavian łâcu, doctor in history, Ion Varta, doctor in history.
As follows, we submit the report of the commission, with the exposed arguments and
recommendations.
Following the recovery of the historiography during the communist and post-communist
period, of the historical literature issued abroad, as well as of a vast volume of archival
documents, whereof many were accessed for the first time, the Commission submitted a
comprehensive synthesis on the communist totalitarian epoch during 1917 / 1924 and
1991. This epoch has as benchmarks, the instauration of the communist dictatorship in
the Moldavian Socialist Soviet Autonomous Republic (MASSR) within Soviet Ukraine,
1 Faculty of History and International Relations, International Free University of Moldavia,
Chişinău, Republic of Moldavia.