Discurs și putere în timpul foametei în masă din Moldova sovietică, 1946-47

Abstract

The article analyses the Communist discourse strategies in Soviet Moldavia during the mass famine in the immediate postwar years. Based on recent archival findings from several post-Soviet archives as well as Western historiography, the article focuses on why
it was so important for the soviet regime to control language during mass famines. Controlling language was an intrinsic part of controlling reality, designing scape-goats, and protecting the power from popular blame and wrath.