DEBATES: How can we write the History of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria?
DEBATES: How can we write the History of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria?

Summary/Abstract: Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the demise of communism in Eastern Europe, historians associated with the Institute for the Study of the Recent Past decided this was a distance long enough to allow them to supplement or even override the contemporary templates of talk about our communist past – the partisan, tabloid press, personal memory, nostalgic, vindictive, etc. discourses – and trail blaze a real research path towards a fuller and soberer stock-taking of our communist past. An attempt went underway to emancipate and ease into the academic mainstream the “full-scale history” of our former national life by setting it apart from a multitude of smalltime private narratives however legitimate in their own right they might be. “A History Of The People’s Republic Of Bulgaria” is the output these academics have come up with.

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