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LES MYTHES ET LES SYMBOLES DU BOLCHEVISME
LES MYTHES ET LES SYMBOLES DU BOLCHEVISME

Author(s): Anatol Petrencu
Subject(s): Cultural history
Published by: Editura Academiei Române
Keywords: communist mythology; Russian myths; Moldavian historiography; culture of memory;

Summary/Abstract: The present paper aims to propose an analyze of the actuality ofmythology focused on the Moldavian Republic space. A quick survey of recentRussian and Moldavian historiographies shows how myths and symbols used incommunist period continue to keep their seduction and even being reintroducedin the public space. The ideological influence of communism is still present insome tendencies of Moldavian historiography that assumed many of Russianmyths and symbols as part of their identity. The result is a false culture ofmemory which gives an important place to Lenin, Ceapaev, the victory againstNazism, the invasion of Bessarabia by Romania.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: XII
  • Page Range: 147-177
  • Page Count: 31
  • Language: French