TURNING THE MEMORY OF ILINDEN 1903 INTO THE
FIRST ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS
Elena Alexandrova
(Summary)
The study traces how the national cultural heritage was constructed in
connection with the anniversaries of the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising
(1903), over which two national states – the Republic of Bulgaria
and the present-day Republic of North Macedonia – disputed their
‘rights’.
Sources show that when Ilinden was celebrated earlier (before
the Second World War), wich was an event permetted only on Bulgarian
soil, the official ceremonial received additional impulses from the
inclusion of living participants in the uprising as representatives of the
persistent unofficial memory.
After 1944, both in the People’s Republic
of Bulgaria and in the People’s (later Socialist) Republic of Macedonia
inside Tito’s Yugoslavia, celebrations acquired a state-backed
character, manoeuvred the collective consciousness mostly in the direction
of the prevalent (communist) ideology and satisfied above all
the needs of the state policy itself.
Keywords: Ilinden, Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising, celebrations, collective
memory
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