TY  - BOOK
AU  - Topouzova,Lilia
TI  - Unsilencing: the history and legacy of the Bulgarian gulag 
SN  - 9781501782046
KW  - Political violence
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Bulgaria
KW  - History
KW  - Memory
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Political persecution
KW  - Forced labor
KW  - Internment camps
KW  - Totalitarianism
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -