„Отпретани сведоштва. Воjнички писма од Големата воjна 1914 – 1918“ – монография, документален сборник или нещо друго?
Otpretani svedoshtva ‘Torn testimonies’: Soldier’s letters from the Great War 1914 – 1918 – a monograph, a documentary collection volume or something else?

Summary/Abstract: The publication is a critical review of the book „Отпретани сведоштва. Воjнички писма од Големата воjна 1914 – 1918“ [Torn Testimonies. Soldier’s letters from the Great War 1914 – 1918], published in Skopje, 2008. The analysis carried out shows that it is not a monograph, as claimed by the team that worked on it, but it cannot be accepted as a scientific documentary collection either. It has been argued that the subtitle “soldier letters from the Great War 1914 –1918” is scientifically unsustainable and does not correspond to the chronological scope and content of a significant part of the documents contained in the presented documentary collection. The paper reflects a number of weaknesses, inaccuracies, misread texts; the non scientific understanding of what a document is, adopted by the publishing team,as well as the distorted anti-Bulgarian interpretation of the very first published document. Reasonable suspicion of manipulative selection was also expressed – due to lack of information – on 12 documents from the presented collection. In conclusion, it is stated that the book can be perceived as a non-scientific propaganda publication with an anti-Bulgarian bias.

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