1.
Barton, Deborah
‘A Female Voice is Instrumental’: Gender, Propaganda, and Coerced Labor on the Eastern Front, 1943-1945 Journal Article
In: Labor History, vol. 64, iss. 3, pp. 304-320, 2023.
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2.
Prisac, Lidia
Sub ocrotirea “fratelui mai mare” sau despre “naţionalităţile conlocuitoare” din R(A)SS Moldovenească Book Chapter
In: Corobca, Liliana (Ed.): Panorama comunismului în Moldova sovietică. Context, surse, interpretări,, pp. 414-436, 2019.
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3.
Casu, Igor
The Fate of Stalinist Victims in Soviet Moldavia After 1953: Amnesty, Pardon and the Long Road to Rehabilitation Book Chapter
In: McDermott, Kevin; Stibbe, Matthew (Ed.): De-Stalinising Eastern Europe: The Rehabilitation of Stalin’s Victims After 1953, pp. 186-203, 2015.
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4.
Casu, Igor (Ed.)
At the Origins of Sovietization of Bessarabia: Identification of Class Enemies, Confiscations of Property and Work Mobilization in Moldavian SSR, 1940-1941. Collection
2014, ((in Russian, with summary and names of the documents in English and Romanian)).
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5.
Casu, Igor
Political Repressions in Moldavian SSR after 1956: Towards a Typology Based on KGB files Journal Article
In: Dystopia. Journal of Totalitarian Ideologies and Regimes, vol. 1-2, pp. 89-127, 2012.
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2023
Barton, Deborah
‘A Female Voice is Instrumental’: Gender, Propaganda, and Coerced Labor on the Eastern Front, 1943-1945 Journal Article
In: Labor History, vol. 64, iss. 3, pp. 304-320, 2023.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, gender, germany, military, soviet union, war
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2019
Prisac, Lidia
Sub ocrotirea “fratelui mai mare” sau despre “naţionalităţile conlocuitoare” din R(A)SS Moldovenească Book Chapter
In: Corobca, Liliana (Ed.): Panorama comunismului în Moldova sovietică. Context, surse, interpretări,, pp. 414-436, 2019.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, ethnic and religious minorities, soviet union
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2015
Casu, Igor
The Fate of Stalinist Victims in Soviet Moldavia After 1953: Amnesty, Pardon and the Long Road to Rehabilitation Book Chapter
In: McDermott, Kevin; Stibbe, Matthew (Ed.): De-Stalinising Eastern Europe: The Rehabilitation of Stalin’s Victims After 1953, pp. 186-203, 2015.
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2014
Casu, Igor (Ed.)
At the Origins of Sovietization of Bessarabia: Identification of Class Enemies, Confiscations of Property and Work Mobilization in Moldavian SSR, 1940-1941. Collection
2014, ((in Russian, with summary and names of the documents in English and Romanian)).
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, forced labour, socialism, soviet union
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2012
Casu, Igor
Political Repressions in Moldavian SSR after 1956: Towards a Typology Based on KGB files Journal Article
In: Dystopia. Journal of Totalitarian Ideologies and Regimes, vol. 1-2, pp. 89-127, 2012.
Abstract | Tags: 20th century, socialism, soviet union
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