Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.17234/SEC.29.5

Recharging socialism: Bulgarian socialist monuments in the 21st century

Aneta Vasileva ; University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Sofia
Emilia Kaleva ; University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Sofia

Abstract

Bulgarian socialist architecture, and particularly its controversial monuments, have recently become the object of various informal actions, debates and interventions which provoke continuous social reactions and inspire spectacular newspaper front pages. It appears that such monuments have infinite potential for dividing people, not only on political, but also on aesthetical or emotional bases. Nowadays in particular, the monuments have even greater social importance as the keepers of dissonant public memory, while their public appreciation reflects different posttotalitarian processes in Bulgarian postsocialist society.

Keywords

Socialism; monuments; memory; heritage; conflict; preservation

Hrčak ID:

191673

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/191673

Publication date:

29.12.2017.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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