Topouzova, Lilia,

Unsilencing : the history and legacy of the Bulgarian gulag / Lilia Topouzova. - Dokument elektroniczny

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Histories and memories untold -- Forced-labor camps and state repression in Bulgaria (1945-1989) -- Surviving Bulgaria's culture of silence -- Eastern Europe's first truth commission and the 1990 reckoning -- Belene: prison-camp island & town (1949-2022) -- The Lovech camp (1959-1962) -- Conclusion: A collective way forward.

"This book blends history and cinematography to describe competing memories of the communist past in Bulgaria, a country that remains largely understudied as a site of repression in early communism and one of the largest ethnically targeted persecution campaigns in late communism"--

9781501782046 9781501782039


Political violence--Social aspects--History.--Bulgaria
Memory--Political aspects--Bulgaria.
Political persecution--Social aspects--History.--Bulgaria
Forced labor--History.--Bulgaria
Internment camps--History.--Bulgaria
Totalitarianism--Social aspects--Bulgaria.