Augusta Dimou Libri

Focusing on the emergence of socialist ideology in the Balkans during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this study explores how international socialist paradigms were adapted in Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece. It highlights the interplay between socialism and other political modernities like nationalism, liberalism, and agrarianism. Through three distinct yet interconnected case studies, the book reveals both shared and unique trajectories of these nations, providing insights into the complexities of modernity and the ideological landscape of Southeast Europe.

Focusing on the historical evolution of copyright, this study examines its crucial role in shaping the creative sector in East Central Europe and the Balkans, specifically in Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria. Augusta Dimou explores how copyright has influenced cultural development across various political regimes, particularly during the first half of the 20th century, while also addressing its implications under communism. The research situates copyright within broader European and global contexts, highlighting the interplay of social, economic, and legal factors that facilitated its growth.

Drawing inspiration from the work of Maria Todorova, Re-Imagining the Balkans displays the breadth of Balkan Studies today in twenty-nine chapters authored by a diverse, interdisciplinary group of scholars. The volume seeks to address how to incorporate the regions of East and Southeast Europe into broader scholarly trends and epistemological currents, while retaining local and regional expertise. The contributions include new research on historical legacies, (geo)politics, generations, memory, and cultural transfers, fresh methodological and historiographical interventions, and novel pedagogical insights. Collectively, the authors display cutting-edge knowledge, orient the general reader in the state of the field, and demonstrate the importance of Southeast Europe for the study of European, transnational, and global history.

This collection of essays gives an overview on current developments in the field of education in the successor states of ex-Yugoslavia and the Republic of Moldova from the mid 1990s to today. The impact of nation- and state-building processes on the politics of history and on schooling are analysed against the background of the complex social and political transformations that have been taking place in the region; changes that are usually subsumed under the problematic and rather unspecific notion of »transition«. The book engages in such issues like: What is the role of international actors and which impact have interventions in education? What are the preconditions for lasting and sustainable reforms in education? What goals are inscribed in history textbook narratives? The book addresses these questions from an interdisciplinary perspective and offers insights into the complicated and ambiguous developments in the field of education in Southeast Europe during the last decade.