Publications

There are huge differences in the way Eastern European countries experienced the transition from communism to democracy – stories of rapid progress and of persisting stagnation; of reconciliatio...

There are huge differences in the way Eastern European countries experienced the transition from communism to democracy – stories of rapid progress and of persisting stagnation; of reconciliatio...

With rise of populism, illiberalism and xenophobia in EU’s Eastern Europe, a key question has become “what went wrong?”. Eastern Europe needs a different approach, which begins with ...

The publication is a collection of papers presented during the academic conference “25 Years of Change” - part of Sofia Platform's initiative “25 Years Free Bulgaria”, whic...

Our collection “Unrewarding crossroads? The Black Sea Region amidst the European Union and Russia”, edited by Anahit Shirinyan and Louisa Slavkova, is designed to gather expertise from the...

Anniversaries have a lot to do with the culture of remembrance. And while in other parts of Europe 2014 was marked by the 100th anniversary of the “Great war”, for us Eastern Europeans, th...

The victims of the totalitarian regimes in Europe, including the victims of the communist regime in Bulgaria, are not a topic we often talk about at school, at home, or with friends. The summer sc...

A primary impediment in teaching history of the Bulgarian communist period is the lack of adequate teacher trainings on contemporary teaching methods. This is especially true when it comes to the rece...

To support civic education teachers, together with the European Commission in Bulgaria we have created a free tool for teachers to help them inspire their students to be alert and active citizens. The...

After working with thousands of students and hundreds of history teachers in the past three years we have come to the conclusion that they do not find the study material about the recent past engaging...

After working with thousands of students and hundreds of history teachers in the past three years we have come to the conclusion that they do not find the study material about the recent past engaging...

This year we celebrate 30 years since the beginning of the transition to a democratic society with a lesson and materials for teaching the events around November 10, 1989. Our experts Momchil Metodiev...

Within the framework of the project 'Experience of state socialism reimagined (ESSR)', financed under the Erasmus+ program, we developed a lesson dedicated to the so-called Revival process in ...

The story of Georgi Saraivanov and why it is important to know our past. Louisa Slavkova for Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation’s blog. ...

Momchil Metodiev talks about our right to insist that security services in democratic countries are different from those in communist regimes and that their distinction lies in the consequences o...

Read the impressions of the participants in the kick-off meeting for the project “Mapping a generation in transition”, conducted in Sofia in May 2015 and hosted by Sofia Platform....

Sarah Ahmed, a sociologist and activist, based in Sanaa (Yemen) and a co-founder of the initiative #SupportYemen, shared here views on the crisis in Yemen with us. ...

Rossitsa Deleva, an analyst focusing on MENA and a Special Envoy to Syria for the Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Nickolay Mladenov (2012-2013) talked to us about the on-going civil war in Syria...