The Scientific Importance of the Memoirs in Researching the Past: The Case of the Deportations from the Moldavian Republic (1941, 1949 and 1951) Cover Image

Importanța științifică a memoriilor în cercetarea trecutului: cazul deportărilor din R.S.S. Moldovenească (1941, 1949 și 1951)
The Scientific Importance of the Memoirs in Researching the Past: The Case of the Deportations from the Moldavian Republic (1941, 1949 and 1951)

Author(s): Anatol Petrencu
Subject(s): Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: Bessarabia; communist regime; deportations; Siberia; traumatic memories;

Summary/Abstract: The scientific restoration of memoirs belonging to individuals exposed to political repression by the Soviet power, especially with respect to the deportation of families from the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic to Siberia and North Kazakhstan (in 1941, 1949 and 1951), brings an important contribution in order to understand the tragic truth about our people’s fate. Without the memoirs of those who have suffered during the years of totalitarianism, this history is uncomplete and incorrect. The memoirs of those deported reveal essential elements concerning the reasons of deportation, their living, working and schooling conditions during the deportation etc. They are also defining documents as regards the return of the deported persons from the detention places to their home places.

  • Issue Year: LVIII/2019
  • Issue No: 58
  • Page Range: 271-277
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian