as part of the effort to keep the language in soviet moldavia ("moldavian socialist culture") far from romanian influences ("romanian bourgeois culture"), a reformed cyrillic script was used to write the language, in contrast with the latin script officially used in romania. the linguist leonid madan was assigned the task of establishing a literary standard, based on the moldavian dialects of transnistria and bessarabia, as well as russian loanwords or russian-based calque.