Patul lui Procust al educației comuniste: straturi de identități studențești în școlile superioare din RSSM [Articol]

Abstract

The Procustean bed of communist education: layers of student identities in higher schools in the Moldavian SSR. The study addresses an issue that has long been avoided in historiography due to preconceived attitudes towards the process and results of the communist education of the intellectual stratum of the MSSR through higher education, an intellectuality inherited by the Republic of Moldova after independence. Researching the issue is important, as the communist regime prioritized the communist education of the intelligentsia over its professional training, promoting with maximum intensity the inoculation of Marxist-Leninist ideals and the interests of the Soviet state both in the curricular and extracurricular and extracurricular frameworks. In this regard, the authorities experimented with an arsenal of forms and methods, put into operation simultaneously, managed and closely controlled, putting students in a true Procrustean bed in the process of forming their conception of the world. Although it is difficult to accurately measure the degree of formation of a “communist consciousness” among students, our research identified several layers of identity in the student environment of the high school of the Romanian Socialist Republic towards the mid-1960s, which demonstrates that communist education produced partial results, far from the imagined ideal.