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158:, appearing at either Balta or Tiraspol in 1935. It sampled 170 works of verse, some of them originating in Bessarabia; it recorded them in a language fully compatible with modern Romanian, but featured unfamiliar terms of Russian origin, which were explained in footnotes. The work was primarily political: S. Soloviova, who authored the preface, noted that, though 122:, also serving as its first conductor. In 1930, the activity drew attention from the MASSR government, who invested in enlarging and improving the choir. Expanded from 15 to 30 people after recruitment around Tiraspol, it came to be led by a professional composer, Konstantin Pirgov, who took it on tours across the Ukraine. 189:
Although controversial on such grounds, Neniu and Lebedeva's collection had cultural importance for its minuteness of detail and its professionalism, as well as for being the only Latin-script collection of Moldavian folklore to have been printed anywhere in the MASSR. Both authors, together with
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an attack on the "counterrevolutionary nationalists" from within the Moldavian Scientific Center. In this context, he alleged that "Nenev" had worked as a policeman in either Russia or Romania, as well as having been an officer in the
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nationalities policy", since it allowed "Moldavian workers" in Bessarabia and the Ukraine to write the same way, advancing communist ideas among the former. With Ekaterina Lebedeva, Neniu contributed a Latin-script
129:, who advised him to begin work as a folklorist. This activity resulted in the recording of over 1,000 poems and songs, the first installments of which appeared before 1935 as two volumes (Romanian titles: 142: 110:, and therefore held in lower regard by the communist establishment. Born Nikolai Semyonovich Nenev (Romanian: Nicolae Nenev), in 1905, "Culai Neniu" was educated at the Pedagogical School in 656: 70:. The collection was criticized in Romania for excluding religious folklore, but was also in contradiction with the MASSR's state ideology. This resulted in Neniu's execution by the 666: 661: 225: 217:. Neniu was drawn into a trial of the Moldovenist (or "originalist") intellectuals, which culminated in March 1934, when Madan was arrested and his books were destroyed. 551: 651: 51: 641: 571: 427: 561: 646: 498: 566: 616: 146: 611: 556: 631: 191: 671: 506: 626: 621: 229: 59: 596: 397: 294: 591: 87: 67: 636: 262:. In 2011, Andrei Sochircă performed a monologue based on works by Neniu and other MASSR writers who were shot in or after the 137:). Neniu's creative period overlapped with the adoption of Latin script for the Soviet Union's national languages, including " 601: 541: 531: 536: 375: 586: 310:
Fedora Burlac, "File din istoria colectivelor corale camerale din Republica Moldova (sec. XX – începutul sec. XXI)", in
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sessions, ending with the "direst consequences" for them. Neniu's downfall was related to the conflicting visions of
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chorale. Its first conductor was David Gershfeld. Neniu's work reportedly included an unfinished political play,
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included no works of post-revolutionary folklore, it had successfully evidenced the Moldavians' hatred of
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Oleg Galushenko, "Молдаване или Румыны? Дискуссии в молдавской АССР: Этнополитологический аспект", in
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were ethnic Bulgarians "who came over from Romania"; he opposes them to other MASSR writers, such as
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argued that Neniu and Lebedeva had produced a biased sample, which fully omitted religious folklore—
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Argentina Gribincea, "Introducere", in Argentina Gribincea, Mihai Gribincea, Ion Șișcanu (eds.),
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Also employed by the Moldavian Scientific Center in 1930–1937, Neniu was in contact with writer
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and his followers within the MASSR. As early as 1934, activist B. Lehtman had published in
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Victor Cirimpei, "Noutăți editoriale. Un distins etnolog român, scos din anonimat", in
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Politica de moldovenizare în R.A.S.S. Moldovenească: culegere de documente și materiale
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Iordan Datcu, "Cărți și atitudini. O monografie despre românii din Transnistria", in
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Nicolae Băieșu, "Folcloristica în R.A.S.S. Moldovenească (anii 1930–1940)", in
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Chioru, fell short of ideological commands, and were summoned to
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was reused by Gershfeld in writing the "first Moldavian opera",
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Writers from the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
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He published several volumes of " 465: 463: 444: 442: 499:Ion Creangă State Pedagogical University 420: 418: 330: 328: 326: 324: 322: 320: 552:20th-century dramatists and playwrights 392:, pp. 11–12. Chișinău: Civitas, 2004. 275: 652:Romanian emigrants to the Soviet Union 369: 367: 224:executioner. Shortly after this, the 7: 642:Romanian people of Bulgarian descent 572:Ukrainian dramatists and playwrights 410:Revista de Etnologie și Culturologie 244:, which depicted Moldavian outlaws ( 141:". This change was announced by the 562:Moldovan dramatists and playwrights 230:Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic 647:Soviet people of Bulgarian descent 289:, p. 71. Chișinău: Museum, 2000. 14: 567:Soviet dramatists and playwrights 617:20th-century Ukrainian musicians 149:as an "enormous victory for the 74:, four years after publication. 34:, Николаи Семёнович Ненев, also 612:20th-century Moldovan musicians 557:Male dramatists and playwrights 236:, where it was reformed as the 226:Soviet occupation of Bessarabia 632:Ukrainian folk-song collectors 68:Latinization of Soviet scripts 1: 490:, Issues 3–4/2008, pp. 48–57. 379:, Issues 9–10/2010, pp. 68–71 156:Cîntece poporane moldovenești 64:Cîntece poporane moldovenești 672:Deaths by firearm in Moldova 495:Didactica educației muzicale 473:, Issue 4 (39), 2015, p. 174 196:proletarian internationalism 627:Moldovan conductors (music) 622:Ukrainian choral conductors 688: 94:notes that both Neniu and 50:, making his way into the 147:Ukrainian Communist Party 32:Nikolai Semyonovich Nenev 27: 597:Ukrainian schoolteachers 143:MASSR regional committee 42:background, he left the 592:Moldovan schoolteachers 637:Bessarabian Bulgarians 412:, Issue 2/2007, p. 241 131:Cu ciocanul toc și toc 84:Bessarabia Governorate 602:Soviet schoolteachers 542:Ukrainian folklorists 532:Moldovan male writers 314:, Vol. 1, 2012, p. 76 186:, and wedding songs. 60:Soviet historiography 40:Bessarabian Bulgarian 537:Moldovan folklorists 228:established the new 209:Krasnaya Bessarabiya 587:Moldovan communists 36:N. 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Index

Russian
Bessarabian Bulgarian
Kingdom of Romania
Soviet Union
Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
Moldavian
Soviet historiography
Latinization of Soviet scripts
NKVD
Bessarabia Governorate
union with Romania
Sergiu Grossu
Dmitrii Milev
Nistor Cabac
Filimon Săteanu
ethnic Romanians
Balta
chamber choir
Tiraspol
Pavel Chioru
Moldavian
MASSR regional committee
Ukrainian Communist Party
Leninist
Tsarist autocracy
Russian Orthodoxy
Nichita Smochină
colinde
bocete
self-criticism

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