Confruntări istoriografice sovieto-române în anii 1960-1980
Soviet-Romanian Historiographical Confrontations in 1960’s – 1980’s

Summary/Abstract: The Soviet-Romanian historiographical confrontation was the basic element of the propagandistic war initiated by the USSR in 1965 against the “special course” of the RSR leadership. The CC of the CPSU and the CC of the CPM approved a series of “strictly classified” decisions that, on one side, disavowed the works of Romanian historians and sociologists, and on the other, foresaw the writing and publishing by Soviet researchers of multiple works that had to reflect “correctly” the “problem of Bessarabia”, Russian- and Soviet-Romanian relations. The documents were sketching wide counter-propagandistic actions, in order to indoctrinate ideologically the Romanians from the MSSR and RSR. During the first stage of this confrontation (1965-1975), RSR historians’ approach was considered similar to the “bourgeois” one and labeled as “revisionist”, “nationalist” and “anti-Soviet”. During the second stage (1976-1981), the apogee of the confrontation, they were labeled as “territorial claims towards USSR”. During the third stage (1982-1985), another peak moment, the Soviet historiography was enlisted to counteract the “new historical conception” of the RSR.

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