Catalogue
| General Information | |
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| Name of the Project | Experienced History. The Events of the Recent Bulgarian History Reflected in Everyday Life |
| Acronym | Everyday History of Communism |
| Institution | Department for History and Theory of Culture, “St. Kliment Ohridski” University of Sofia |
| Copyright | |
| Project Content | |
| Researchers | |
| Project Objectives | 1. Study of everyday life and life course during the socialist period 2. Reconstruction of the subjective aspect of history 3. Introduction and development of biographical |
| Context/General Description | A three-year project (1995-1999), financed by the Research Fund of the Ministry of Education and Science (contract No OHN 517/95) and carried by faculty and students of the Dept for History and Theory of Culture. About 200 oral autobiographical interviews with persons from different social backgrounds born mostly in 1920s and 1930s have been collected during the project. The material has been used in the research of faculty and students (including MA theses). Follow up: collecting life stories has become a permanent activity of the Department as a form of student fieldwork practice. |
| Outcomes | 1. An oral archive 2. Two collections of life stories 3. Over 20 publications in Bulgaria and abroad |
| Publications/Bibliographies | no english publication available |
| Archives, Informational Resources | |
| Archive Type | Oral life stories collected during the project and its aftermath |
| Format | Audio casettes, files, hard copies |
| Accessibility | Available at the Library of the Department for History and Theory of Culture, “St. Kliment Ohridski” University of Sofia |
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News
20 October 2010
Call For Papers: The Balkans in the Cold War
an international conference that will study the region in the context of the Cold War.
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18 May 2010
Book Presentation "This is My Past"
Institute for Studies of the Recent Past and CIELA Publishers have the pleasure to invite you to the public promotion of the two volume collection
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10 November 2009
Without a Trace? The Labour Camp in Belene 1949 - 1959
Commemorative Exhibition
November 10 - 22, 2009
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9 November 2009
Public promotion of Todor Zhivkov's Biography
National Art Gallery
1, Alexander Batenberg Square on November 10, 18.30 h.
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