1998/03/01 by W.P. van Meurs · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Mathematics · #Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics #Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics #Soviet and Russian History #Carving #Metaphor #Identity (music) #Nationalism #Communism #Field (mathematics) #Aesthetics #Space (punctuation) #History #Genealogy #Epistemology #Sociology #Philosophy #Political science #Law #Linguistics #Archaeology #Mathematics #Politics
paper · doi:10.1080/00905999808408549
openalex publication_date 1998/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
“For what we all are, really, is elegant scarecrows on fields of words.” Gabriel Liiceanu's metaphor of “discourse” is particularly revealing for the case of the Moldavian nation. When the field is already covered with scarecrows, a new one will have trouble finding a free spot and functioning properly. Rivaling nationalist and communist interpretations of Moldavian history have left little free space for an original view: historical facts have been interpreted and reinterpreted time and time again, so it has become increasingly difficult to create new meanings and to find fresh words.