Invited Researcher in residence at Maison Suger from November 7th to December 7th, 2022
Igor Casu, Ph.D., is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Center for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes & Cold War, State University of Moldova, Chișinău. Casu was awarded twice Fulbright fellowship, last time in 2016 at Stanford & Hoover during which he gave public lectures at Yale, Harvard and Toronto Universities. He specializes in Soviet state terror and teaches a master course on Political Police and Secret Services in 20th Century Moldova, covering Tsarist, Romanian interwar, and Soviet periods. He is working now on a book on the postwar famine in Soviet Moldavia, 1946-47. Since April 2022, Casu runs the National Agency for Archives which comprises all state and non-governmental archives. He likes football and folk music.
The project
Title: Stalin’s Bread: Postwar Famine in Moldavian SSR in Soviet and European context, 1946-7
Keywords: Famines, state terror, political repressions, collectivization, state and peasants, resistance, nationalities policies, Moldova, Romania, Ukraine
“Soviet State Security and the Cold War: repressions and agent infiltration of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Moldavian SSR, 1944 to late 1950s”, in James A. Kapalo and Kinga Povedak, eds., The Secret Police and the Religious Underground in Communist and Post-Communist Eastern Europe, Routledge, 2022, pp. 131-147.
“Top Party elite rectruitment in Soviet Moldavia and centre-periphery relations, 1940-1991”, in Li Bennich-Bjorkman, Saulius Grybkauskas, eds., Moscow and the non-Russian Republics of the Soviet Union. Nomenklatura, Intelligentsia, and Centre-Periphery Relations, Routledge, 2021, pp. 75-96.
“Чистка сотрудников НКВД Молдавской АССР после Большого Террора” [Purge of the purgers of NKVD cadres in Moldavian ASSR after the Great Terror] // Марк Юнге, Линн Виолла и Джеффри Россман (составители), Чекисты на скамье посудимых, Москва, Пробел-2000, 2017, с. 596-630.
“The Fate of Stalinist Victims in Soviet Moldavia after 1953: Amnesty, Pardon and the Long Road to Rehabilitation”, in Kevin McDermott, Matthew Stibbe, eds., De-Stalinising Eastern Europe: The Rehabilitation of Stalin’s victims after 1953, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp. 186-203.
“Discontent and Uncertainty in the Borderlands: Soviet Moldavia and the Secret Speech 1956–1957”, in Europe-Asia Studies, 64:4, 2014, pp. 613-644 (first author,co-author Mark Sandle).
"Был ли Советский Союз империей? Взгляд из Кишинева" ["Was the Soviet Union an Empire? A view from Chisinau",] //НЕПРИКОСНОВЕННЫЙ ЗАПАС (МОСКВА) № 78 (4/2011). Full text available at: http://magazines.russ.ru/nz/2011/4/ka13.html
