THE MEMORY OF THE VICTIMS OF THE TOTALITARIAN-COMMUNIST REGIME: SINCE THE DICTATE OF SILENCE TO THE STATUS OF CULTURAL INHERITANCE (II)

Abstract

The article presents the results of scientific research in the field of recovering and historical investigation of the memory of the victims of the totalitarian-communist regime in the Moldavian SSR during 1940–1941, 1944–1953, in particular, those achieved in the period of 2018–2019. The extension of the theoretical foundations and the elaboration of a methodology connected to the historical-cultural context of the researched space ensured the elaboration of a complex database with oral history interviews, documents from the family archive, journals, photographs. Included in the category of historical sources with documentary value and closely corroborated with traditional sources of study, they give to the historical research a more complex and documented aspect. Or, the research of the memory of the victims of the totalitarian regime from the period of the Moldavian SSR, beyond the recuperative function, also involved the effort of scientific investigation. Recognition at national and international level of the research results and promotion of a new field of research in the scientific environment of the Republic of Moldova – the memory of the victims of the totalitarian-communist regime in the Moldavian SSR, is also a symbolic act of justice for the whole society of the Republic of Moldova.

Keywords

• oral history
• culture of memory
• memory of the victims of the totalitarian-communist regime
• republic of moldova