“Aesopian language” in the communist regime: a scientific article by the Bulgarian scientist Nikola Mavrodinov Cover Image
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“Aesopian language” in the communist regime: a scientific article by the Bulgarian scientist Nikola Mavrodinov
“Aesopian language” in the communist regime: a scientific article by the Bulgarian scientist Nikola Mavrodinov

Author(s): Parviz Gasymov
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Cultural history, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: ЮГОЗАПАДЕН УНИВЕРСИТЕТ »НЕОФИТ РИЛСКИ«
Keywords: totalitarianism; resistance; Aesopian language; Mavrodinov

Summary/Abstract: The resistance in intellectual milieu of countries with totalitarian regimes had different forms. The “Aesopian language” was another resistance form. In Bulgarian archeologist, professor Nikola Mavrodinov’s article “Excavations and researches in Bulgaria in recent years”, published in the scientific journal “Soviet archeology”, in 1955, there was a noticeable contrast to that landscape of “underdeveloped archeology of bourgeois Bulgaria” depicted by him in the beginning of his article with presented facts by him. N.Mavrodinov’s article was an evident example of scientist’s “Aesopian language”, whose country was occupied and the regime established by the metropolis country demanded of the scientist to downgrade all achievements, made prior to occupation. Using, namely, this “Aesopian language”, the scientist showed that, at least, not everything was negative in the past or generally, one shouldn’t see the past in negative.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 150-165
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English