1. On the limitations of de-Stalinisation, see P. Jones (ed), The Dilemmas of DeStalinization: Negotiating Cultural and Social Change in the Khrushchev Era (London, 2006). Specifically on Soviet Moldavia, see I. Casu and M. Sandle, ‘Discontent and Uncertainty in the Borderlands: Soviet Moldavia and the Secret Speech 1956–1957’, Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 66, no. 4 (2014), pp. 613–44.
2. For further details, see I. Casu and V. Pdslariuc, ‘Moldavian SSR’s Border Revision Question: From the Project of “Greater Moldavia” to the Project of “Greater Bessarabia” and the Causes of Their Failure (December 1943-June 1946)’, Archiva Moldaviae, vol. 2 (2010), pp. 275–370.
3. For further details, see C. King, ‘The Ambivalence of Ethnicity or How the Moldovan Language was Made’, Slavic Review, vol. 58, no. 1 (1999), pp. 117–42.
4. I. Casu, ‘Was the Soviet Union an Empire? A View from Chisinau’, Dystopia. Journal of Totalitarian Ideologies and Regimes, vol. 1, no. 1–2 (2012), p. 287.
5. For a recent comprehensive analysis of the subject, see L. Viola, ‘The Question of the Perpetrator in Soviet History’, Slavic Review, vol. 72, no. 1 (2013), pp. 1–23.