Along with the transition to a modern and democratic political organization, based on values and norms of liberal democracy of the countries from European area of culture and civilization, the years that followed the proclamation of the Republic of Moldova’s sovereignity and independence were marked by efforts to restore the social functions of history, as a fundamental element collective memory and spiritual culture of society as a whole. Considering such attempt of a great theoretical and scientific benefit, and also of a real applied value, and without claiming an exhaustive or unique approach of the problem, this historiographical study is aimed to provide an overall analysis of the evolution of the academic research in contemporary historiography, in one hand, and to offer a critical assessment of the current state of research in this field, on the other hand, - all of which will help identifying perspective and priority directions of the contemporary history studies in the Republic of Moldova, so that the contemporary history research was able to resist the many and various pressures brought by globalization: political and ideological pressures, of the continuously changing and adapting educational system, of economic and financial constraints, conflicting theories on the twentieth century and also, especially in contemporary history’s case, the pressure of public opinion.