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Silviu ANDRIEȘ-TABAC, Stema, drapelul și imnul Republicii Moldova. O cronică a adoptării și consacrării (The Coat of Arms, Flag, and Anthem of the Republic of Moldova. A Chronicle of Their Adoption and Consecration), Chișinău: [S.n.], 2025, 124 pp., (Biblioteca “Heraldica Moldaviae”, 1), ISBN 978-9975-173-72-8.

The volume Stema, drapelul și imnul Republicii Moldova. O cronică a adoptării și consacrării, authored by the State Heraldist of the Republic of Moldova, is dedicated to the history of the major state symbols of the Republic of Moldova. The book was published to mark the 35th anniversary of the adoption of the state flag (27 April 1990) and the state coat of arms (3 November 1990), as well as the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the second state anthem, “Limba noastră” (22 July 1995).

The author follows in detail the events related to the genesis of national symbols within the political movement for national emancipation in the former Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, which led to the restoration of the pan-Romanian blue-yellow-red tricolor, the Romanian national anthem “Deșteaptă-te, Române!” (in use between 27 August 1991 and 7 June 1994) and certain state coats of arms derived from the historical coat of arms of the Principality of Moldova and that of the Kingdom of Romania. The gradual return to power in the Republic of Moldova of left-wing forces, adherents of the old pan-Russian and pan-Soviet state doctrines and false theories about the existence of a “Moldovan nation” ethnically and linguistically different from the Romanian one, was accompanied by sustained and repeated attacks (until the fall of the communists in 2009, but with a few timid comebacks later), inspired from within the government, to revise the three state symbols. In the context of this “counter-revolution”, civil society, creative intellectuals, and the National Heraldry Commission attached to the President of the Republic of Moldova (established on 5 December 1995) managed to put up sufficient resistance in the case of the flag and coat of arms to keep them intact and caused the 1994-1995 competition for the ‘creation’ of a new national anthem to fail.

Given the previous contributions to the subject, which are already well established in scientific circles, the new work focuses on historiographical analysis, on a more thorough critical examination of the press as a contemporary chronicle and of some testimonies collected by the author in real time, on the interpretation of events and the positions of the political and non-political actors involved. The author essentially presents his own vision as an expert in symbols, as a participant and witness to the events. The work includes a chapter dedicated to each of the three symbols, a section reserved for final general considerations, as well as the mandatory elements of a scientific work: introduction, conclusion, and selective bibliography. Some new elements of great interest are also brought up in the foreword to the volume, signed by the well-known writer and politician Ion Hadârcă, an active participant involved at the highest level in these events. The volume initiates the “Biblioteca Heraldica Moldaviae” collection, supported by the “Heraldica Molaviae” yearbook, which is published in Chișinău through the collaboration of the National Museum of History of Moldova with the “Paul Gore” Society of Genealogy, Heraldry, and Archival Science.

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