Petar Dobrev (CAS Sofia): “The fight against the kulaks in Bulgaria – the fate of the large landowners in Dobrudja after 1944”
Abstract: Although small in percentage, until September 9, 1944 in Bulgaria there was an influential layer of large landowners. The so-called chiflikchii owned large farms mainly in Dobrudja, which was returned to the borders of the country with the Craiova Agreement of 1940. In addition to adapting to the change of state borders, this stratum would soon experience a change of regime. If initially the new communist government was relatively tolerant of the big landowners, then at the end of 1947 the regime began a serious attack on them as “kulaks”. In my research I will follow the liquidation of large land holdings in the region of Dobrudja, which in terms of historiography, has so far remained in the shadow of the general processes of collectivization in Bulgaria.
Lovro Kralj (University of Rijeka): “The Holocaust in Southeastern Europe in a Comparative Perspective”
Abstract: This talk discussed the importance of further (re)integrating southeastern Europe into the international Holocaust historiography. By employing asymmetrical comparison of Croatia with Romania and Bulgaria this talk analyzes the similarities and differences in the implementation of the Holocaust. Do different types of regimes, ideologies, antisemitism, or international relations (e.g., with Nazi Germany) explain the temporal and geographic variations in the implementation of the Holocaust in the three countries? We will explore the advantages and disadvantages of integrating different approaches and methodologies from the fields of Holocaust, fascism and antisemitism studies. While these three fields remain largely isolated from each other, a synthetical approach can explain various entanglements and divergences in the implementation of mass violence during the Second World War in southeastern Europe.
https://uni-regensburg.zoom.us/j/62411825548?pwd=Y2pFL3V0aWNEQko2eXphQ2VJMFdTQT09
(Meeting-ID: 624 1182 5548, Kenncode: 519637)