Погребения и отдаване на посмъртни почести към личности от политическия елит в постсоциалистическия период – примерът на Сърбия и България
Funerals and Commemoration of People of the Political Elite in the Post-Socialist Period in Bulgaria (the Example of Serbia and Bulgaria)

Summary/Abstract: The funerals and the celebrations of the anniversaries of the deaths of the Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Gingic and the ex-president of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic are taken up in the text as forms of institutionalization of honoring the memory of late politicians (the case of Z. Gingic) or imitation of the forms of state homage by political upholders (the case of Sl. Milosevic), after the refusal for institutionalization by the governing state circles. The post socialist period situation in Bulgaria is regarded as similar to the one in Serbia, although unburdened by the shadow of the crumble of politics and war. During that period many representatives of the political elite of the Socialism period were buried – one of whom is T. Jivkov (as an example of refusal for institutionalization of honoring his memory). Other eminent politicians of the transition period – A. Lukanov, P. Mladenov, L. Berov are buried with state honors. A very specific case is the funeral of the mummy of G. Dimitrov and the demolition of the Mausoleum. It is and example of the interference of the institutions in the transformation of one of the emblematic monuments for the Socialism period into a monument of forgetfulness.

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