Constituirea sistemului de învățământ superior sovietic în RSSM (1940-1941)
Establishment of the soviet higher education system in MSSR (1940-1941)

Summary/Abstract: The Sovietization process, initiated after the annexation of Bessarabia and the creation of the MSSR in the summer of 1940, also included the expansion of the Soviet-style education system in the newly acquired territories, including the creation of an impressive number of higher educational institutions. Besides the working high schools in the former territories of MASSR, two pedagogical higher educational institutions, an agricultural institute, and a music high school were created on the right bank of the Dniester, all taking over the patrimony of interwar educational institutions and making use of the Romanian educational traditions. The analysis of the connection between the Soviet propagandistic statements about a “Moldovan” and universal high school, free of charge and the organization of studies in the “mother tongue” and the planning of the Soviet higher institutions according to the realities after the first annexation of Bessarabia, convinced the author of the research about the control of the propaganda and political-ideological elements over the professional elements of the higher education system of the MSSR.

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