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BALKANISTIC WORLDS

Volume II • Issue 2 • June 2026

ISSN 3033-134X (Print)

ISSN 3033-1358 (Online)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20966869

GENERATIONS – MEMORY, DIALOGUE, CONFLICT

Editors: Maya Angelova and Milena Angelova

CONTENTS

ARTICLES
*MEMORY, TRAUMA AND THE COMMUNIST PAST*
Claudia-Florentina Dobre Haunted Generations: Postmemory, Repression, and Communist Trauma	7
Vlad Mitric-Ciupe Silenced Loyalties: Memory, Ambiguity and Intergenerational Resilience in a Romanian Family under Surveillance	29
Petar Vodenicharov, Nurie Muratova Communist State Security and Youth – Language and Ideologies (Bg)	51
Selin Başer Özgen, Melek Aylin Özoflu, Apak Kerem Altıntop International Criminal Justice and Social Healing after Srebrenica: Reflections from Collective Memory	96
*GENERATIONS, LITERATURE AND CULTURAL READINGS*
Eka Vardoshvili The Relationship between Literary Generations: Tradition and Rebellion	115
Antony Hoyte-West Generational perspectives in Ledia Xhoga’s Misinterpretation	123
Magdalena Kostova-Panayotova Time and Timelessness in the Balkans (Everything I Know about Time from Goran Petrovich) (Bg)	135
Boris Naimushin Generations and Destinies: Alain Robbe-Grillet, Vera Mutafchieva, and Donka Melamed as Brigade Leaders in Divotino in August 1947 (Bg)	142
*SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS, COMMUNITIES AND KNOWLEDGE*
Imeri Basiladze, Lela Tavdgiridze, Maia Bolkvadze Historical and Social Aspects of the Politicization of Pedagogical Education in Soviet Georgia (1921–1932)	165
Nevena Dimitrova Ageing and Power in Sport: Intersectional Perspectives on Women, Ageism, and Generational Stereotypes: Women in Rugby	187
Violeta Kotseva, Kremena Iordanova Bulgarians in Norway. Stories of Adaptation and/or Isolation (Bg)	207
Asmat Ardzenadze, Nana Kajaia Visual Representation of Women’s Social and Cultural Transformation in 20th-century Adjara: Photography as a Sociocultural Text	228
Kakha Tavdgiridze The “Lost Generation” as a Discursive Outcome of Verbal Aggression	245
BOOK REVIEWS
Miguel Ángel Gómez Mendoza Between Memory, History, and Nostalgia: Life Stories from Communism	258
Milena Angelova Rituals of Mentorship: Power and Consecration in the Literary Field of Communist Bulgaria (Bg)	264
Ina Dimitrova Outside, Inside, In Between: Rethinking the Socialist Subject	276
Rayna Gavrilova Reflections on a New Anthropological Study of Bulgarian Kinship (Bg)	282
Kristina Popova A Metaphor for Technological Progress or Inhumane Slaughter? Chicago Slaughterhouses in American and European Culture (Bg)	286
Venelin Nikolaev The Beginning of History: Anthropological Notes ‒ Main Ideas and Structure	292