Georgeta Nazarska

• Prof.,Ph.D.
• Professor (Full) at University of Library Studies and IT, Sofia

The article shares a best practice of the University of Library Studies and Information Technologies, Sofia, related to the successful transfer of new fundamental knowledge from science to secondary education. It consisted of developing a new model of teaching of high school teachers, including the preparation of content and teaching aids, its prac...

The article aims to study the social change in Bulgaria in the short period immediately after the fall of the totalitarian regime in November 1989. The rapid renaming of the streets, squares, and institutions of Sofia is examined, and the changes of the city symbols (coat of arms, city flag, and city day) are commented on. The main research questio...

The article explores the economic transition in Bulgaria carried out in the 1990s through the evaluations given by the participants of its course and results. The study is based on a sociohistorical and socioanthropological approach, using data from recently conducted standardized interviews, focus groups, and surveys. A comparative analysis of the...

Учебно-методическо помагало за учители от гимназиален етап

This article deals with post-communist period in Bulgaria and particularly with the social change on the example of sports elites. It is studying the transformation of old (totalitarian) sports elites into new (capitalist) ones, changes in their symbolic capital and content of new ‘reputational elites’, and the legacy of socialist sport in the tran...

This article treats an unresearched topic, i.e. history of the bookselling company with a court bookstore of the Kasuroff family, operating in Sofia in the period of 1890s–1940s. Based on primary sources, a historical reconstruction of the processes of establishment and functioning of the enterprise is carried out. Its activities are commented from...

The article examines the life and professional activity of Stefana Pissareva-Schnitter (1892 – 1944) – a relatively little-known figure in the history of Bulgarian vocational education. Along with the biographical reconstruction, the place of the educated female elites in the development of vocational education in Bulgaria is outlined and the trans...

The article examines the political subjects of social change during the Bulgarian tran-sition from totalitarianism to democracy (1990-2007): the subcultures of ‘former com-munists’ and of ‘anti-communists’ formed in the early 1990s. The research question is about their attitudes in the past and presence to lustration – a point of intersection for t...

Religious cultural heritage and atheist policy in communist Bulgaria

The article discusses the feminist mobilization in the first half of the 20th centuryby example of the Bulgarian branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (1918–1952). On the basis of archival documentation and data from the periodicals, the ideology, social foundations and activities of society are reconstructed. The study a...

The article describes as a “good practice ” the experience of University of Library Studies and IT – Sofia, in conducting two courses for the acquisition of “Teacher of Religion – Islam and Non-denominational Education” additional professional qualification during 2018/2019 and 2020/2021 academic years. The results of the courses are analyzed throu...

The article is dedicated to the Nazarites spiritual community – an occult group, which in the 1920s-1980s was part of the eclectic based New Religious Movements in Bulgaria. The aim of the study is to analyze its structure and activities in the context of suppression of freedom of thought, conscience and religion and of escalating atheistic policy...

This article explores the branches of the International Federation of University Women (IFUW) in the interwar period and up to the early 1950s as feminist organisations on the Balkans gathered women intellectuals with various fields of expertise and devoted its initial efforts to equal rights of education and professional career. By means of histor...

The article deals with the social framework for gender equality in modern Bulgaria. It focuses on the re-traditionalisation of the “social field” and of the efforts to restore patriarchy observed in the last ten years in Bulgaria. The article concerns the established symbiosis between religious and nationalist populist organisations in Bulgaria and...

The article is a case study of the life, work and ideas of the Bulgarian political and religious figure Christo Oustabachieff (1871–1953). Beginning his career as a financial official, political activist and founder of one of the first xenophobic organizations, after the First World War he devoted himself entirely to religious activities: he founde...

The collection presents the findings of a research project on the theme “Subcultures as agents of change in the Transition” that was conducted between April and December 2020 by a research team from the State University of Library Studies and Information Technology (SULSIT) in Sofia. The term “Transition” refers to the social, political and economi...

The article examines the migrations of young Bulgarians abroad in the 1920-1930s, caused by the Great Depression and in particular the labor migrations of Bulgarian musicians in Egypt and the Near East and their cultural and social interactions with the Bulgarian diaspora there and with the local population. The focus of the study is the travels of...

The object of the paper is the development of Bulgarian science during the totalitari-an period (1945-1989), but its subject is the scientific career of the habilitated women, working in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) – the largest scientific organiza-tion in the country at that time. The aim is to explore the opportunities for vertical so...

The paper presents a scientific project, which is implemented for the second academic year at the SULSIT. The tasks in the research are: to present the concept of the project, to comment on the successful use of project training in the teaching of academic knowledge in religion, to analyze the results of a survey; to draw conclusions about the rela...

This paper describes actually methodical attempts to use library electronic resources in academic education. Some opportunities for improving the teaching of religious cultural heritage and for diversify the methods of assessment of students in Bulgarian universities are commented. The text describes the personal experience of the authors with stud...

The article deals with the graduates of the American educational institutions in Bulgaria, and particularly focuses on their functioning as educated elites in the conditions of communist rule in the 1940-1960s. The monitoring of the American graduates suspected of espionage in favor of England or USA before and after 1944 is described and observed....

Through a prosopographical analysis, the chapter examines the formation of an educated girlhood during the period when the new independent state of Bulgaria was being created. The focus is on graduates of female high schools in Bulgaria from 1850 to 1950. The chapter explores the social role of the girls as members of Bulgaria’s educated elite and...

GLORIA BIBLIOSPHERAE (Нишката на Ариадна) : Изследвания в чест на акад. проф. Александра Куманова : Юбилеен сборник по случай 65 години от основаването на УниБИТ = GLORIA BIBLIOSPHERAE (Ariadne’s Thread) : Studia in honorem Acad. Prof. Alexandra Kumanova : A Festschrift for 65th Golden Jubilee of the University of Library Studies and Information Te...

The paper is dedicated to the creation and activities of three major professional subgroups formed among Bulgarian female medical doctors in the late 19th century, the pioneers in the Bulgarian healthcare - obstetrician-gynecologists, pediatricians and teachers physicians. Main aims of the text are: 1. study of the opportunities that female gynecol...

The article aims to create a socio-demographic portrait of the professional group of women dentists in Bulgaria in the first half of the 20th century; to characterize their impact in their guild’s development; to analyze this group through the theory of elites and in particular as educated elites, i.e. as a leader in the process of social moderniza...