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The paper is a first case study researching the Formatiunea 0830 Periprava labour camp in the Danube Delta (1957-1964). The analysis focuses, pertinently and objectively, on the situation of political prisoners sent to this unit of forced labour in the first two decades of communism. The work is based on a wide range of historical sources (published and unpublished archival documents), the legislation of the age, and sources of oral history (testimonies and interviews). This study is the result of a two-year research, including the examination of files connected to the subject from the archives of the Consiliului National de Studiere a Arhivelor Securitatii (National Council for the Study of Security Archives) and field research in the village of Periprava conducted on two occasions. The analysis failed to identify any published materials approaching the subject from the same perspective as the present research. From this point of view, the study can be regarded as an original contribution to the subject discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bessarabia, part of the tsarist empire (after the seizure of the territory in 1812), was pushed gradually towards a forced assimilation/integration to Russia's social-political life. The immediate impact of the annexation was marked by the th social-political and ecclesiastical crisis of the 19 century's first three decades: migrations of the population, plague and cholera epidemics, shortages and poverty. The phenomenon was later compared to "la Grande Peur" of 1789 during the French Revolution because the local population's fear from the sudden changes were as great as in France. The later development of the province was a tormenting process of adaptation by which the Bessarabian Romanian society tried to conform to the conditions of the foreign social, political, cultural, and ecclesiastical environment of the empire. Political division was followed arbitrarily by an administrative-religious rupture by the creation of a new eparchy in the annexed territory - the Eparchy of Chisinau and Hotin, subordinated canonically/anti-canonically to a foreign Church. Metropolitan Gavriil Banulescu-Bodoni (1813-1821) who led the newly created eparchy in the annexed territory had to look for a compromise to reconcile the Russian political and ecclesiastical domination with the spiritual life of the Bessarabian people. The scholarly activity of the Metropolitan Gavriil Banulescu- Bodoni was situated "between tradition and the tsarist policy". Against the background of these phenomena of social and political crisis in the new province incorporated into the Russian Empire, the Bessarabian Branch of the Bible Society was initiated in 1817. The Bessarabian Branch of the Russian Bible Society was created and the distribution of the books of the Holy Scripture with missionary aims was made in accordance with a model directed by the Bible Committee of Saint Petersburg, which means that it followed a structure identical with the central one which, in turn, functioned according to a foreign model (the British and Foreign Bible Society). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the situation of periodical publication in Bessarabia, beginning with its territorial takeover in 1812 by the Russian Empire, when it was gradually forced into a social-political integration or assimilation. The author presents all the attempts to found a periodical on the territory of Bessarabia, based on historical evidence and archival research, starting with the first Imperial publication in 1854 of a Governmental Bulletin. Romanian publications in Bessarabia had a new chance of existence only at the beginning of the 20th century, after the Revolution from 1905, when an impressive number of new publications left the press. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]