| Titre | Les dossiers de la Sûreté d'État bulgare : le communisme dans les pliures du temps | |
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| Auteur | Nadège Ragaru | |
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Revue | Revue des Etudes Slaves |
| Numéro | Vol. 81, no 2-3, 2010 La Bulgarie : du communisme à l'Union européenne Langue, littérature, médias sous la direction de Jack FEUILLET et Marie VRINAT-NIKOLOV | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | La Bulgarie : du communisme à l'Union européenne. Langue, littérature, médias Articles |
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| Page | 203-225 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Bulgaria's State Security Files Unfolding Socialism's Multiple Temporalities
In December 2006, a socialist-led majority passed a law to open the files of the former State Security on the eve of Bulgaria's EU integration. The aim of the present article is to explore the social and political mobiliza- tions that led to this apparently paradoxical outcome. The purpose is also to examine precisely the various social constructions of the issues at stake about declassifying information concerning the deeds of the former State Security apparatus. In so doing, the paper brings into relief the two following arguments : although the wish to expose the crimes of the communist regime has consti- tuted the key objective for several social actors who had been working for a long time for the declassification, this particular under- standing of the problem has been combined with a search for greater transparency in a young democracy or for a more efficient struggle against organized crime. In fact, over the past twenty years, dominant read- ings of the question of the State Security files have moved from an assessment of the communist past to a wish to reveal the evils of the post-communist transition - i.e. state capture. This slow move is the key to explain how a concensus on the opening of the files was finally reached. As a result, and this is our second point, when we consider the ways in which the past is narrated through the issue of the communist archives, we need to take into account several temporalities : the pre-communist and communist pasts, the recent transition period and present-day developments. The question of the archives has led to a rethinking not only of the communist experience but more broadly of Bulgaria's political history. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/slave_0080-2557_2010_num_81_2_8049 |
