Petar VodenicharovSouth-West University “Neofit Rilski” (Bulgaria) [peter_acad@yahoo.com], ORCID ID: 0000-0002-9637-4490 Nurie MuratovaSouth-West University “Neofit Rilski” (Bulgaria) [nuriemuratova@yahoo.com], ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1083-4722 Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20963114 COMMUNIST STATE SECURITY AND YOUTH – LANGUAGE AND IDEOLOGIES Abstract:Our research is based on published archival documents of the State Security (DS) related to youth (the age range is from children of 15 years…
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Vlad Mitric-Ciupe
Vlad Mitric-CiupeCenter for Historical and Architectural Studies, Bucharest (Romania)[vlad.mitric@adproiect.ro], ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4011-9041 Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20962967 SILENCED LOYALTIES: MEMORY, AMBIGUITY AND INTERGENERATIONAL RESILIENCE IN A ROMANIAN FAMILY UNDER SURVEILLANCE Abstract:This article explores the intergenerational transmission of political trauma and morally ambivalent positioning within a Romanian family marked by repression, surveillance, and forced silence under communism. The Pușchilă family…
Claudia-Florentina Dobre
Claudia-Florentina Dobre“Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History, Bucharest (Romania)[cfdobre@gmail.com], ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6778-3466 Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20961839 Haunted Generations: Postmemory, Repression, and Communist Trauma Abstract:The descendants of individuals persecuted during communism in Romania do not constitute a generation in a sociological sense but rather a “category of memory”. Their engagement with the legacy of repression varies according to age and…
Marinela Mladenova
Marinela Mladenova is a Professor of General and Comparative Linguistics and Lecturer in Bulgarian at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. She earned her degree in Slavic Philology (Bulgarian and Czech) from Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv and holds a PhD in General and Comparative Linguistics (Contrastive Linguistics) from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. Her academic…
PRO MEMORIA: GRIGOR GRIGOROV (1969–2025) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18078561 Д-р Григор Бориславов Григоров – изследовател, преподавател и най-вече – пътешественик по дух, посветил голяма част от живота си на българския език и културното наследство, особено там, където то пулсира най-силно, сред българските общности в чужбина. Роден е на 25 септември 1969 г. в София. Средното си образование завършва…
BOOK REVIEW Penka Iv. PeykovskaInstitute for Historical Studies – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences [pykvsk@yahoo.com]ORCID ID: 0000-0001-7979-3258 Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18078508 THE CHALLENGES OF INTEGRATION: REFUGEES FROM THE MIDDLE EAST IN BULGARIA (2013–2019) Abstract: The monograph ‘The (Im)Possible Integration of Refugees from the Middle East in Bulgaria (2013–2019)’ presents and discusses the results of an interdisciplinary study on different…
BOOK REVIEW Milena AngelovaNew Bulgarian University (Bulgaria)[mangelova74@yahoo.com]ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0208-1989 Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18078508 SHADOW MODERNITIES AND THE STATE’S GREY ZONES: THREE CRIMINAL REGIMES IN BULGARIAN HISTORY (1879–1944) Abstract: This review examines Dimitar Gyudurov’s book Traders of “White Slaves,” Forgers and Smugglers in Bulgaria (1879–1944) as part of a broader research project on illicit economies and state formation in modern…
BOOK REVIEW Mariyana PiskovaSouth-West University “Neofit Rilski”, Bulgaria[piskova@gmail.com] Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18078450 THE HISTORY OF CINEMA ONCE AGAIN ENCOUNTERED ITS CAPTIVATING NARRATOR Abstract: The latest book by the renowned film historian Petar Kardzhilov brings together eight independent studies on the early steps of Bulgarian cinema. The chronological scope of the narrative is limited to the period between the…
INTERVIEW Dr. Margarita Shoylekova and Dr. Ignat Petrov in a conversation with Anelia Kassabova and Kristina Popova Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18078363 „I Chose to Become a Doctor without Realizing that I would be Confronted with Human Suffering. Later – and to this Day – this has Motivated me Never to Stop Learning.” Abstract: Margarita Shoylekova (b. 1945) and…
Egvenia IvanovaNew Bulgarian University (Bulgaria)[j_lubivanova@abv.bg] Downloadhttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18078336 TO PLAY THE GAME OF STATE Abstract: The text examines the question of why, during the Ottoman period, certain distinctly Bulgarian villages evoked in their contemporaries a sense of “unrestricted freedom.” According to the author, the explanation lies in the privileges granted through special sultanic firmans and – above…