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Vol. 2 No. 2 (2026): GENERATIONS – MEMORY, DIALOGUE, CONFLICT

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Editors: Maya Angelova and Milena Angelova

ISSN 3033-134X (Print)

ISSN 3033-1358 (Online)

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20966869

Published: 2026-06-28

MEMORY, TRAUMA AND THE COMMUNIST PAST

Haunted Generations: Postmemory, Repression, and Communist Trauma

Claudia-Florentina Dobre (Author)

7-28
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Silenced Loyalties: Memory, Ambiguity and Intergenerational Resilience in a Romanian Family under Surveillance

Vlad Mitric-Ciupe (Author)

29-50
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Communist State Security and Youth – Language and Ideologies

Petar Vodenicharov, Nurie Muratova (Author)

51-95
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International Criminal Justice and Social Healing after Srebrenica: Reflections from Collective Memory

Selin Başer Özgen, Melek Aylin Özoflu, Apak Kerem Altıntop (Author)

96-114
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GENERATIONS, LITERATURE AND CULTURAL READINGS

The Relationship between Literary Generations: Tradition and Rebellion

Eka Vardoshvili (Author)

115-122
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Generational perspectives in Ledia Xhoga’s Misinterpretation

Antony Hoyte-West (Author)

123-134
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Time and Timelessness in the Balkans (Everything I Know about Time from Goran Petrovich)

Magdalena Kostova-Panayotova (Author)

135-141
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Generations and Destinies: Alain Robbe-Grillet, Vera Mutafchieva, and Donka Melamed as Brigade Leaders in Divotino in August 1947

Boris Naimushin (Author)

142-164
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SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS, COMMUNITIES AND KNOWLEDGE

Historical and Social Aspects of the Politicization of Pedagogical Education in Soviet Georgia (1921–1932)

Imeri Basiladze, Lela Tavdgiridze, Maia Bolkvadze (Author)

165-186
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Ageing and Power in Sport: Intersectional Perspectives on Women, Ageism, and Generational Stereotypes: Women in Rugby

Nevena Dimitrova (Author)

187-206
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Bulgarians in Norway. Stories of Adaptation and/or Isolation

Violeta Kotseva, Kremena Iordanova (Author)

207-227
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Visual Representation of Women's Social and Cultural Transformation in 20th-century Adjara: Photography as a Sociocultural Text

Asmat Ardzenadze, Nana Kajaia (Author)

228-244
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The “Lost Generation” as a Discursive Outcome of Verbal Aggression

Kakha Tavdgiridze (Author)

245-257
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Book Reviews

Between Memory, History, and Nostalgia: Life Stories from Communism

Miguel Ángel Gómez Mendoza (Author)

258-263
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Rituals of Mentorship: Power and Consecration in the Literary Field of Communist Bulgaria

Milena Angelova (Author)

264-275
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Outside, Inside, In Between: Rethinking the Socialist Subject

Ina Dimitrova (Author)

276-281
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Reflections on a New Anthropological Study of Bulgarian Kinship

Rayna Gavrilova (Author)

282-285
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A Metaphor for Technological Progress or Inhumane Slaughter? Chicago Slaughterhouses in American and European Culture

Kristina Popova (Author)

286-291
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The Beginning of History: Anthropological Notes ‒ Main Ideas and Structure

Venelin Nikolaev (Author)

292-295
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