Contemporary Historiographic Debates on ‘Communism’ and the Secrets of Archives
Contemporary Historiographic Debates on ‘Communism’ and the Secrets of Archives
Author(s): Liliana DeyanovaSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Social Sciences
Published by: Centrul de Studii Memoriale și Identitare
Keywords: Totalitarian Paradigm’; Social Sciences; Secret Police’ Archives; Communist Ideology
Summary/Abstract: This article aims at challenging the ‘totalitarian paradigm’ applied to Bulgarian field of social sciences through the study of the Political Police Archive as well as the activity of the academic and university institutes and centres while investigating the memoirs of researchers, activists, political police’s agents. The goal of this study is to understand something quite specific – whether one can speak of a real, and not theatrical, transformation in the social sciences during communism in Bulgaria.
Journal: MemoScapes. Romanian Journal of Memory and Identity Studies
- Issue Year: 1/2017
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 7-18
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English