Studia Universitatis Moldaviae. Stiinte umanistice

3-6

Authors: Laura ARDELEAN

In this paper the 2nd to 4th century period for Crişana is highlighted, when this area was massively inhabited by the tribes of free Dacians, the ones not incorporated in the Roman Empire. They lived between the Iazyg Sarmatians and the Germanic people from the West and North-West and the Roman province Dacia. Their material culture lives on, changes in their structure are made by the appearance of black grainy pottery and the brick-red usual roman pottery. Gradually their culture is metamorphosed in a provincial Roman one. The settlements belonging to the free Dacians on the Crişul Repede, Crişul Alb, Crişul Negru, Barcău and Ier valleys were archaeologically researched. We mention the settlement from Medieşul Aurit where dozens of pottery kilns were discovered and where Roman style pottery was produced on a grand scale destined for trade. Researches showed that the free Dacians continued their lives even after the Roman conquest. They had contacts with Sarmatians and Germanic people but the strong Roman influence cannot be contested, especially through trade and social relations. After the Romans left the province one can observe movements of romanized Dacians towards West and North-West but also movements of free Dacians’ territory towards the once Roman Dacia. The process of romanization continues here until the arrival of the Slavs and in the 9th-10th century the Romanians form here a separate political formation.

16-22

Authors: Sorin ȘIPOŞ

In medieval sources, the Romanian population on the coast of Dalmatia and in the Istria Peninsula is known as Istro-Romanians in Romanian historiography, but documents of the time also record it as Morlachs. The archives in France still contain unpublished documentary sources about the Romanians in the north of the Danube and in the Balkan Peninsula. The reports are written either by French officers, or by people in the elite of the nations subjected by Napoleon. This is the case of the memoir drafted in 1806 by Colonel Antoine Zulatti on the reform and regulation of Dalmatian Morlachs. His memoir constitutes an epic on the realities of the Morlach society at the stage of losing its linguistic identity, but very conservative in terms of its customs, traditions and holidays.

31-52

Authors: Valentin TOMULEŢ

Based on unpublished archival sources, found in the funds of the National Archive of the Republic of Moldova and the Historical State Archive of Russia (St. Petersburg), the author analyzes the changes that have occurred in the demo-graphic, social, economic and religious situation of Bessarabia in the first decades after the annexation. Using statistical data collected and systematized by the Spiritual Dicastery of Chisinau, for the years 1819-1829, prepared on the basis of parish registers, and official statistics, for the years 1819-1828, presented by the regional administration to imperial institutions, the author analyzes the size, distribution and composition of population, its social and confessional compo¬sition, describes the changes that occurred in the economic life of the province.

60-70

Authors: Cristina GHERASIM

The nobility from Bessarabia got actively involved in the tsarist administrative system in order to benefit by the rights and privileges of this specific social category, but it also reserved its national identity. This fact is confirmed by the archival data, writings, notes and comments of the domestic and foreign contemporaries. The manifestation of national identity was realized by: keeping the old title; the use of signatures in Moldavian paleography; endless conflicts with the representatives of imperial administration and tsarist army; negative attitude towards the allogeneous employment in various social and political fields; the fight for the domestic legislation, the language, Romanian customs and traditions; communication in the Romanian language; listening to the fiddler music etc. So, the nobility had an important role in the process of promotion of national identity and consciousness; the villagers preserved the Romanian ethos but the nobility rose up personalities: who boosted the unity with the motherland Romania, who proved Latin and Romanian character in Bessarabia, that the truly language is the Romanian and the history is common with the one of Principality of Moldavia before the annexation.

76-80

Authors: Petru GOLBAN

The process of russification, begun in Bessarabia ever since 1812, evolved along an ascending trend until the liberation of this province in 1918. Along with the goal of fulfilling the gap of highly trained specialists, by opening the agrarian schools (we refer here to those from Grinauti, Cucuruzeni and Purcari) the tsarism had a more subtle aim, that of rus¬si¬fication. The teaching language, the study programme and the modifications in the educational plan, lead to the conclusion that one of the main targets of the tsarism, by opening these schools, consisted in the denationalisation of the Romanians from Bessarabia.

88-98

Authors: Constantin UNGUREANU

During 1875-1919, Chernivtsi University was comprised of three faculties: orthodox theology, law and philosophy. The Faculty of Orthodox Theology played a special role within the University. This department was comprised of 15 full professors, of which 13 were Romanian and 2 Ukrainians. Faculty of Law was the best frequented. The Faculty of Philosophy in Chernivtsi was comprised of several departments such as philosophy, history, philology and linguistics, mathematics and natural sciences, modern languages, physics and chemistry. Just before the Great War, this Faculty was comprised of 28 departments of which 16 were specialized in philology and history while 12 were specialized in the natural sciences.

110-114

Authors: Valentin ARAPU

The governor of Bessarabia S.D. Urusov settled the „Armenian issue” in an amicable way. Armenians from Bessarabia agreed to cede to Russian state some money and properties, in order to keep intact the privileges and status they held. In Bessarabia, unlike other gubernias, where there were tensions in this regard, thanks to skilful and tolerant policy, promoted by S.D. Urusov, the process of partial expropriation of the Armenian community was held calmly and without excesses.

123-134

Authors: Liliana ROTARU

The human resource is the strategic capital of any higher education institutions and, in general, a judicious staff policy, but especially – a good policy of recruitment and selection of didactic and scientific staff makes possible to realize the higher education mission and, by default – the goals of those who are promoting it. The research of staff policy in high schools of MSSR during the higher education recovery after the WWII revealed that it was under the control of national policy of the soviet state. This policy aimed to create a “new man”, and to integrate him into a supra-ethnic identity, called “the soviet people” – a denationalized people, indoctrinated with the Marxist-Leninist ideology, Russified and Russianized, who had one socialist homeland – the Soviet Union and one common goal – to build the communism. All the instruments and methods of recruitment and selection of the academic staff for the educational institutions of MSSR were subordinate to the creation of a new didactic and scientific body, mostly Russian speaking and maintaining the Russian language and culture, ideologised and loyal to the soviet state and to the communist party. The professional competences were a secondary criterion of recruitment and selection, and all of this – camouflaged under the significantly idea of promoting “the Moldovan native element”.

145-148

Authors: Adrian-Cosmin IUŞAN

This paper aims to bring to light new information on the history of Jews in Romanian space from a case study of Transylvanian village Negrileşti, Bistrita-Nasaud county. We will try to trace, from the few existing sources the image of the Jews in the mind of Romanian people of Negrilești, the one that existend during the time the village had a Jewish population and the one that was transmitted generationally until today.

162-170

Authors: Cosmin PATCA

The Upper Bistra Valley is located in the North-Western part of Romania, in the Northern half of Bihor County. In 1989 almost all the labour force was employed by the PadureaNeagra Glass Factory and the Voivozi Mining Exploitation. The fall of communism in Romania brought about a major change of the whole society; standard of living was high and the area was attractive. Mining and glass working disappeared. The economic restructuring and the closure of factories influenced the evolution of the population: demographic regress, migration, poverty. Such a research at the border between history, sociology, statistics and historical demography has the role of contributing to a deep and accurate knowledge on local realities with a view to find solutions for the economic revival of the area.

290-294

Authors: Dina ȚĂRNĂ

In the current socio-cultural context in which religious activity is a matter of personal choice and free time, religious identity seems to be more unstable than ever. Most psycho-sociological research focused on studying identity during adolescence, although the process of building religious identity does not end at that age, proof being religious conversions that occur in adulthood or old age. Fluidity and negotiation religious identity is a crucial piece in understanding human religious commitment. Postmodern religious identities are often assembled to create a DIY beliefs and practices, and sociologists, anthropologists relate this phenomenon to the expansion of the media and human capacity to access a wide variety of religious information. Thus, in many situations, religious identity is reflected and shaped the technology we use, and individuals build their identity using symbols media.