EDUCAȚIA POLITICĂ ȘI IDEOLOGICĂ CURRICUALRĂ INSTRUMENT DE INGINERIE NAȚIONALĂ ȘI SOCIALĂ ÎN ÎNVĂȚĂMÂNTUL SUPERIOR DIN RSSM (1940–1953)

Summary. Few regimes have been able to exploit education so deliberately, emphatically and rigorously to consolidate and ensure their perpetuation as the Soviet regime, with the political and ideological education of students in higher schools often occupying a more important role than their professional training. After the annexation of Bessarabia, the regime transplanted the Soviet-type higher education system into the SSR, and, with it, that of political-ideological education, transforming it into an instrument of national and social engineering of society in the new union republic. In this research, the author analyzes the evolution of the place and importance of social subjects in the political-ideological education of students in the higher school of the SSR during the Stalinist period, the specifics of the content and results of this effort.Key words: higher school in the Moldavian SSR, national and social engineering, political and ideological education, social academic disciplines, Marxism-Leninism