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13 March 2010

Institute for Studies of the Recent Past (Enter)
Description:	The Institute, relying on the achievements of modern social and humanitarian sciences, studies the Communist regime as thoroughly as possible, not only as an ideological and political phenomenon, but also from a historical, psychological, social, and even anthropological point of view. The crimes of the regime have to be explicitly named, but its changes over the years also need to be analysed, in order to reveal the model's hidden similarities and persistency... (In Bulgarian and English)

Institute for Studies of the Recent Past (Enter)

Description:

The Institute, relying on the achievements of modern social and humanitarian sciences, studies the Communist regime as thoroughly as possible, not only as an ideological and political phenomenon, but also from a historical, psychological, social, and even anthropological point of view. The crimes of the regime have to be explicitly named, but its changes over the years also need to be analysed, in order to reveal the model's hidden similarities and persistency... (In Bulgarian and English)

Decommunization: (Enter)
Description:	The web site is the result of the spontaneous initiative of a group of participants in political discussions in Bulgarian cyberspace. It is built in support of the draft resolution on the international condemnation of communism, sponsored by Rene van der Linden at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe - to inform about the draft, to solicit support for it and to collect favorable opinions on its pages. Another purpose of the site is, as time permits, to display information on the crimes of communist regimes, mostly from existing web sites containing documents and testimonies about the decades of communist rule in many countries of the world. (In Bulgarian and English)

Decommunization: (Enter)

Description:

The web site is the result of the spontaneous initiative of a group of participants in political discussions in Bulgarian cyberspace. It is built in support of the draft resolution on the international condemnation of communism, sponsored by Rene van der Linden at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe - to inform about the draft, to solicit support for it and to collect favorable opinions on its pages. Another purpose of the site is, as time permits, to display information on the crimes of communist regimes, mostly from existing web sites containing documents and testimonies about the decades of communist rule in many countries of the world. (In Bulgarian and English)

Stalinka: Digital Library of Staliniana (Enter)
Description:	Stalinka is intended as an online resource for students, teachers, scholars, and anyone conducting research on Stalin/ism. Assembled by Helena Goscilo (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures), Susan Corbesero (Department of History), and Petre Petrov (graduate student) at the University of Pittsburgh, the collection comprises visual materials and artifacts relating to Stalin: photographs, posters, paintings, banners, sculptures, chinaware, pins, etc.

Stalinka: Digital Library of Staliniana (Enter)

Description:

Stalinka is intended as an online resource for students, teachers, scholars, and anyone conducting research on Stalin/ism. Assembled by Helena Goscilo (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures), Susan Corbesero (Department of History), and Petre Petrov (graduate student) at the University of Pittsburgh, the collection comprises visual materials and artifacts relating to Stalin: photographs, posters, paintings, banners, sculptures, chinaware, pins, etc.

Open Society Archives: Fonds related to history of Communism and Cold War (Enter)
Description:	By far the most comprehensive fonds related to the history of Communism and the Cold War in Central and Eastern Europe is that of the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute (RFE/RL). These materials were accumulated during the 45 years of continuous activity, and are thus a major source of information about the region's post-war political, social and economic history. Of considerable importance are also Russian, Polish and Hungarian Samizdat materials.

Open Society Archives: Fonds related to history of Communism and Cold War (Enter)

Description:

By far the most comprehensive fonds related to the history of Communism and the Cold War in Central and Eastern Europe is that of the Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute (RFE/RL). These materials were accumulated during the 45 years of continuous activity, and are thus a major source of information about the region's post-war political, social and economic history. Of considerable importance are also Russian, Polish and Hungarian Samizdat materials.

Integrated History Database (Enter)
Description:	The site is aimed at providing educators and students with the kinds of primary sources they need to integrate the historical experience of East-Central Europe into a range of broader narratives. In the process, we also hope that it will spur them to rethink how those broader histories are written and understood. Theres is special section dedicated to Communism, Revisionism, Dissident Movements.