Igor Cașu
@icasu.bsky.social
Historian of Soviet Union; Soviet State Terror; Soviet Famines; Soviet Nationalities Policy; Soviet Moldavia. Director at Nat.Agency of Archives, Chișinău, Moldova.
Alexandru Cazacu (7. Nov. 1949 - 17.10.2025). The first Moldovan rock guitarist playing for NOROC 1969-70 and CONTEMPORANUL 1974-5. One of the best in USSR in the 1970s. Second right hand. Source: National Agency of Archives.
October 18, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Alexandru Cazacu (7. Nov. 1949 - 17.10.2025). The first Moldovan rock guitarist playing for NOROC 1969-70 and CONTEMPORANUL 1974-5. One of the best in USSR in the 1970s. Second right hand. Source: National Agency of Archives.
Swiss archivists and historians visiting the National Agency of Archives in Chişinău, interested in Moldovan history, memory and archives, October 6. Thanks for the visit and waiting for Swiss historians to conduct research in our depositories! arhiva.gov.md
October 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Swiss archivists and historians visiting the National Agency of Archives in Chişinău, interested in Moldovan history, memory and archives, October 6. Thanks for the visit and waiting for Swiss historians to conduct research in our depositories! arhiva.gov.md
16.09.1924: SOVIET HYBRID WAR AGAINST INTERWAR ROMANIA. My account on what happened in "Exporting Soviet Revolution: Tatarbunar Rebellion in Romanian Bessarabia (1924) // The International Journal of Intelligence, Security, and Public Affairs Vol. 22, 2020.
September 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
16.09.1924: SOVIET HYBRID WAR AGAINST INTERWAR ROMANIA. My account on what happened in "Exporting Soviet Revolution: Tatarbunar Rebellion in Romanian Bessarabia (1924) // The International Journal of Intelligence, Security, and Public Affairs Vol. 22, 2020.
101 years today since the Tatarbunar rebellion in south Bessarabia, a Soviet inspired and led uprising against Romania, a hybrid war avant la lettre. Source: arhiva.gov.md
September 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
101 years today since the Tatarbunar rebellion in south Bessarabia, a Soviet inspired and led uprising against Romania, a hybrid war avant la lettre. Source: arhiva.gov.md
1989, 29-31 Aug: supporters of national movement beaten by Soviet militia in downtown Chişinău for endorsing Romanian language as state one. Parliament voted for that, that is why Moldova celebrates each year on Aug. 31 - and since 2011 Romania as well- day of Romanian language.
August 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
1989, 29-31 Aug: supporters of national movement beaten by Soviet militia in downtown Chişinău for endorsing Romanian language as state one. Parliament voted for that, that is why Moldova celebrates each year on Aug. 31 - and since 2011 Romania as well- day of Romanian language.
1991, August 27: Moldova declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
August 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
1991, August 27: Moldova declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1989: condemning the Nazi-Soviet Pact of August 23, 1939 and its consequences for Bessarabia during the mass protests in downtown Chişinău. This issue was one of the main to delegitimise the Soviet regime.
August 23, 2025 at 7:54 AM
1989: condemning the Nazi-Soviet Pact of August 23, 1939 and its consequences for Bessarabia during the mass protests in downtown Chişinău. This issue was one of the main to delegitimise the Soviet regime.
Exhibition on “State Terror in Soviet Moldavia. Victims, Perpetrators, and Scale” in downtown Chişinău until July 27. Organised by National Agency of Archives, and Government of Moldova.
July 22, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Exhibition on “State Terror in Soviet Moldavia. Victims, Perpetrators, and Scale” in downtown Chişinău until July 27. Organised by National Agency of Archives, and Government of Moldova.
The interactive map of Soviet mass deportation from the Moldavian SSR in early July 1949, Operation SOUTH. The total of 35 792 persons were embarked at the nearby 26 railway stations. Click on the station and you will get the full list of those embarked from the nearest localities, per carriage.
July 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The interactive map of Soviet mass deportation from the Moldavian SSR in early July 1949, Operation SOUTH. The total of 35 792 persons were embarked at the nearby 26 railway stations. Click on the station and you will get the full list of those embarked from the nearest localities, per carriage.
REMEMBERING 1st MASS DEPORTATION IN MOLDAVIA: I. Cașu, Mass Deportation from Bessarabia/Moldavian SSR in mid-June 1941. Enhancing Security, a Social Engineering Operation, or something else? Securitas Imperii, 37, 2/2020, Available online for free at: securitas-imperii-journal.com/author/casu/
June 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
REMEMBERING 1st MASS DEPORTATION IN MOLDAVIA: I. Cașu, Mass Deportation from Bessarabia/Moldavian SSR in mid-June 1941. Enhancing Security, a Social Engineering Operation, or something else? Securitas Imperii, 37, 2/2020, Available online for free at: securitas-imperii-journal.com/author/casu/
VIDEO 1986: satul Gura Galbenei, raionul Cimișlia. Părinți rămași la bătrânețe fără nici un sprijin, copiii fiind plecați departe în lume. Secvență din filmul "Cu durere și speranță", Moldova-film, regie Boris Vieru, scenariu - Dumitru Olărescu. Sursa: arhiva.gov.md
May 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
VIDEO 1986: satul Gura Galbenei, raionul Cimișlia. Părinți rămași la bătrânețe fără nici un sprijin, copiii fiind plecați departe în lume. Secvență din filmul "Cu durere și speranță", Moldova-film, regie Boris Vieru, scenariu - Dumitru Olărescu. Sursa: arhiva.gov.md
NEW BOOK on European famines, including on the Soviet postwar famine of 1946-7 which was most devastating proportionally in historical Bessarabia/Moldavian SSR. OPEN ACCESS.
May 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
NEW BOOK on European famines, including on the Soviet postwar famine of 1946-7 which was most devastating proportionally in historical Bessarabia/Moldavian SSR. OPEN ACCESS.
Today’s visit to the Agenția Națională a Arhivelor of our American guests, Laura Engelstein, Professor Emerita, Yale & Princeton, and Michael Geyer, Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago. We have found some documents pertaining to Laura’s roots in Bessarabia.
April 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Today’s visit to the Agenția Națională a Arhivelor of our American guests, Laura Engelstein, Professor Emerita, Yale & Princeton, and Michael Geyer, Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago. We have found some documents pertaining to Laura’s roots in Bessarabia.
Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe based on KGB docs - in a volume of 1200 pages published by Ukrainian historians back in 2019. Full access: cdvr.org.ua/wp-content/u...
April 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe based on KGB docs - in a volume of 1200 pages published by Ukrainian historians back in 2019. Full access: cdvr.org.ua/wp-content/u...
Next Wednesday, 30.04.2025, Michael Geyer, Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago, will give a talk in Chișinău about Europe and Near East as Shatter-Zones of Empire in the 20th and 21st Centuries.
April 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Next Wednesday, 30.04.2025, Michael Geyer, Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago, will give a talk in Chișinău about Europe and Near East as Shatter-Zones of Empire in the 20th and 21st Centuries.
Next Tuesday, 29.04.2025, Laura Engelstein, Professor Emerita, Yale & Princeton, will give a talk in Chișinău about her ancestors born in Copanca, Moldova, on the Dniester river, and how they survived Russian revolution and civil war.
April 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Next Tuesday, 29.04.2025, Laura Engelstein, Professor Emerita, Yale & Princeton, will give a talk in Chișinău about her ancestors born in Copanca, Moldova, on the Dniester river, and how they survived Russian revolution and civil war.
Online exhibition on postwar famine in Soviet Moldavia, 1946-7: lnkd.in/dvVqRA4j organised by government of Moldova and National Agency of Archives.
April 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Online exhibition on postwar famine in Soviet Moldavia, 1946-7: lnkd.in/dvVqRA4j organised by government of Moldova and National Agency of Archives.
Crude Death Rate (CDR) per 1000 in Soviet Moldavia during the postwar famine of 1946-1947 (only 1947 here) which was the most devastating proportionally in the MSSR with 123,000 deaths, i.e. 4.5 % (Ellman, 2000). Map © Stephen Wheatcroft, Filip Slaveski, Igor Cașu, Ian D. Bishop.
April 15, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Crude Death Rate (CDR) per 1000 in Soviet Moldavia during the postwar famine of 1946-1947 (only 1947 here) which was the most devastating proportionally in the MSSR with 123,000 deaths, i.e. 4.5 % (Ellman, 2000). Map © Stephen Wheatcroft, Filip Slaveski, Igor Cașu, Ian D. Bishop.
Cannibalism during the postwar famine in Soviet Moldavia, 1946-1947. 153 cases documented so far based on archival sources. Includes both hommicidal cannibalism and necro-cannibalism.
April 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Cannibalism during the postwar famine in Soviet Moldavia, 1946-1947. 153 cases documented so far based on archival sources. Includes both hommicidal cannibalism and necro-cannibalism.
U.S. HISTORIAN GLENN TORREY: On March 27, 1918, Sfatul Țării voted for Union of Bessarabia with Romania. Germany, France, and Great Britain approved it, for various reasons, "confirming the principle of nationality and self-determination". Romania and WWI, 1999, pp. 124-127.
March 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
U.S. HISTORIAN GLENN TORREY: On March 27, 1918, Sfatul Țării voted for Union of Bessarabia with Romania. Germany, France, and Great Britain approved it, for various reasons, "confirming the principle of nationality and self-determination". Romania and WWI, 1999, pp. 124-127.
Agenția Națională a Arhivelor is glad to host this week Katerina Lykoudi, Research Fellow at the Leibniz-Centrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, who is working on a research topic "Russian-Ottoman relations and the Karaites Question" (Turkic-speaking Judaic ethnoreligious group).
March 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Agenția Națională a Arhivelor is glad to host this week Katerina Lykoudi, Research Fellow at the Leibniz-Centrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, who is working on a research topic "Russian-Ottoman relations and the Karaites Question" (Turkic-speaking Judaic ethnoreligious group).
30 years ago today - the biggest 3-month long student protests began in Moldova against an attempt by ruling PDAM government to reinstall the Soviet identity politics by forbidding the national history paradigm as part of history of Romanians instated in 1990.
March 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
30 years ago today - the biggest 3-month long student protests began in Moldova against an attempt by ruling PDAM government to reinstall the Soviet identity politics by forbidding the national history paradigm as part of history of Romanians instated in 1990.
The Voice of America helped a lot of Moldovans to avoid the Soviet mass deportations of early July 1949. Source: Agenția Națională a Arhivelor (ANA), Chișinău, Moldova, file on operation IUG, 1949, a former MGB/KGB file.
March 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The Voice of America helped a lot of Moldovans to avoid the Soviet mass deportations of early July 1949. Source: Agenția Națională a Arhivelor (ANA), Chișinău, Moldova, file on operation IUG, 1949, a former MGB/KGB file.
FOREIGN GUESTS AT MOLDOVA's ARCHIVES: this week we hosted Simon Miles, Duke University, author of "Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War", 2020, working now on "On Guard for Peace and Socialism: The Warsaw Pact, 1955–1991".
March 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
FOREIGN GUESTS AT MOLDOVA's ARCHIVES: this week we hosted Simon Miles, Duke University, author of "Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War", 2020, working now on "On Guard for Peace and Socialism: The Warsaw Pact, 1955–1991".
Moldova was the 1st country in the world - it is true not yet fully independent itself at that time - to recognize Lithuania’s independence from the USSR declared on March 11, 1990.
March 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Moldova was the 1st country in the world - it is true not yet fully independent itself at that time - to recognize Lithuania’s independence from the USSR declared on March 11, 1990.