Issue 1 / 2023. Socialist Modernization: Institutions and Life Paths. Issue Editors: Anelia Kassabova, Daniela Koleva

 Table of Contents:

Anelia Kassabova, Daniela Koleva – Socialist Modernization: Institutions and Life Paths. 

Mila Bankova – The ‘Modernization’ of the Menstruating Female Body during the Period of State Socialism.

Georgi Todorov – “Our Inmate Won from Toto-2”. About the Life in Home No. 8 for Children and Adolescents with Mental Disabilities in Sofia. 

Radina Ilieva – Children’s Health Camp in Bulgaria during the Socialist Period. 

Inxhi Brisku – Establishment and Operation of the first Elders’ Care Institution in Albania.

Ignat Petrov – Self-Assessments, Values and Mental Health of Elderly People from the Bulgarian Rural Population. 

RESEARCH

Galin Georgiev – From Moldavian Corten to Altai and back to Tarutino, Ukraine. The ‘Big’ Theme of the Soviet Deportations in the ‘Small’ Stories of the Bulgarians from Bessarabia. Part 3. 

MUSEUMS, EXHIBITIONS, GALLERIES

Elena Vodinchar – Bulgarians in Romania – Cultural Heritage from the Fund of the National Ethnographic Museum. 

REVIEWS AND COMMENTS

Georgi Todorov – – Heiner Fangerau, Anke Dreier-Horning, Volker Hess, Karsten Laudien, Maike Rotzoll (Hrsg). Leid und Unrecht. Kinder und Jugendliche in Behindertenhilfe und Psychiatrie der BRD und DDR 1949 bis 1990. Köln, 2021.

Mila Maeva – Contemporary Field Research of Cultural and Historical Heritage. Y. Erolova, P. Krastev, Yu. Popcheva (Eds.). Sofia, 2021. 

Ekaterina Anastasova – Luleva, A., I. Petrova, P. Petrov, S. Kazalarska, Y. Yancheva, Zl. Bogdanova (Eds.). Everyday Socialism: Promises, Realities, and Strategies. Sofia, 2022. 

IN MEMORIAM

Valentina Sharlanova – Memory of Ganka Mihaylova (1936 – 2022).