Летописът на село Старо село, Тутраканско. Идеологизация на паметта
The Chronicle of the Village of Staro Selo, Tutrakan. Ideologization of Memory

Author(s): Nikolay Nenov
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure
Published by: Пловдивски университет »Паисий Хилендарски«
Keywords: chronicle; community; memory
Summary/Abstract: The Chronicle of the village of Staro Selo, near Tutrakan, Northern Bulgaria, was compiled in the years between 1967 and 1972. For this short period, the chronology includes significant events from the world and national history. Among them, we will spot the Moon landing, the Prague Spring of 1968 and the adoption of a new Constitution of the People's Republic of Bulgaria in 1971. The text almost does not include a local chronicle, thus showing the impression of the ideological framework in which it has been created.In the texts of the chronicle, the local community is described as "labor", "socialist-international", "progressive-technical". These desired existential parameters of self-identification do not show the possession of markers for a different description of the local community from what is generally accepted - in the norm of the socialist community. Being institutionally supported and having recorded not only local events, but important ones for the Socialist Bloc, the Chronicle is a testimony of the attempts to ideologize and instrumentalize memory.

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