Introduction
Introduction

Summary/Abstract: The project “Politics of Memory and Memory Cultures of the Russian-Ottoman War 1877/1878: From Divergence to Dialogue” (MEMORYROW), which is funded by the European Commission’s “International Research Staff Exchange Scheme – Marie Curie Actions” for four years, has been an initiative of the Balkanistic Seminar at Blagoevgrad University. With its partner organization, the Centre for Southeast European History and Anthropology at University of Graz a successful application to the European Commission was formulated and excellent partner organizations identified: the Institute of National History “Ss Cyril and Methodius in Skopje”, the Department of Modern and Contemporary History, Folklore and Social Anthropology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Department of History at İstanbul Bilgi University, the Batumi University, the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia in Yerevan, and the Russian State Social University of Stavropolˈ. Our consortium started working on February 1, 2012. The first work package “The Russo-Ottoman War – National Models of Memory” lasted eight months and peaked in a workshop held at Graz University on September 8, 2012. The articles presented in this volume are results of this workshop.

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