Componenţa etnică a colectivelor artistice şi a Uniunilor de creaţie din RSS Moldovenească în anii `40 -`50 ai sec.XX

Abstract

An important aspect in the process of analyzing cultural life in the young Soviet republic in the first years after re-launching the USSR is the evaluation of the human potential in the art institutions. The situation in which the Moldovan SSR at the end of the Second World War was in the area of personnel insurance is deplorable. Much of the artistic intelligentsia was subjected to the repression in June 1941. Another part emigrated to Romania and other countries. And some of the writers, composers and plastic artists who remained in the USSR were arrested and sent to Siberia in 1949. Under these conditions, art institutions had an acute shortage of specialists with higher education and even specialist backgrounds. A massive process started of inviting and bringing to the RSSM of specialists from the main cultural centers of the country, but also from other union republics, which diminished the representativeness of the local specialists. The present study aims at studying the ethnic composition of several artistic groups and three creation unions, through the study of archival documents from the 1940s and 1950s and contemporary historiographical studies.