Претворяване паметта за Илинден в първите юбилейни чествания
Turning the memory of Ilinden 1903 into the first anniversary celebrations

Summary/Abstract: The study traces how the national cultural heritage was constructed in connection with the anniversaries of the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising (1903), over which two national states – the Republic of Bulgaria and the present-day Republic of North Macedonia – disputed their ‘rights’. Sources show that when Ilinden was celebrated earlier (before the Second World War), wich was an event permetted only on Bulgarian soil, the official ceremonial received additional impulses from the inclusion of living participants in the uprising as representatives of the persistent unofficial memory. After 1944, both in the People’s Republic of Bulgaria and in the People’s (later Socialist) Republic of Macedonia inside Tito’s Yugoslavia, celebrations acquired a state-backed character, manoeuvred the collective consciousness mostly in the direction of the prevalent (communist) ideology and satisfied above all the needs of the state policy itself.

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