VENETS: the Belogradchik journal for local history, cultural heritave and folk studies

293-302

Authors: V. Kachev

We open the present number of “Venets” with the most recent five poems written in December 2017 by Vlalentin Kachev, the Belogradchik poet.

351-362

Authors: B. V. Toshev

A biographical sketch of Simeon Hristov (1852-1910) is presented. This teacher in 1879 was a head of the Belogradchik pedagogical seminary. The author of the present article advocates for using by pupils and teachers “historical trips” in the past in order to overcome the cultural trauma, which is a feature of the modern education.

371-384

Authors: B. V. Toshev

This book is written by Dr. Zvezdo Kostov (1934-2017), Associate Professor at the University of Russe. In the book the documental history of the Astronomical Observatory in Belogradchik in its first stages is presented. Dr. Kostov is a brother of Hristo Kostov, a teacher in Physics, who initiated the establishment of the Observatory, first for school needs.

400-400

Authors: B. V. Toshev (Ed.)

Artist: Todor Poptoshev (1878-1956)

149-154

Authors: V. Borisov

The most recent three rhymes by Veselin Borisov are shown in the present article. Veselin Borisov is a professor of social medicine at the Medical University in Sofia. He was born in the village of Skomlya mear the town of Belogradchik. For his scientific achievements and public responsibilities in favour Belogradchik Professor Borisov was declared as an honorary citizen of Belogradchik.

175-189

Authors: E. Kozhuharova

The commemorative medals for the wars 1912 – 1913 and 1915 – 1918 were established in 1936. This articles is a archives investigation showing the persons, mainly from the region of Belogradchik, which were awarded with those medals.

201-208

Authors: I. Valev

The article focuses on the question “According to public perceptions, school for what is the conscription: school for war or school for peace; school for military training and education or school for national (civil) awareness and respon-sibility?”. The reason for posing this problem is the widespread public opinion that the return of "the compulsory military conscription" is an opportunity for prevention from certain negative social processes, which developed recently in Bulgaria. In fact, the article tries to indicate some possible factors, which influence public position about the benefits and negatives of the military training and education.

248-258

Authors: B. V. Toshev

Colonel Stefan Iliev was a commander of the 15th Infantry Lom regiment. He was killed in a battle during WWI at Chervenata stena, near Bitolya, Macedonia. His biography and his military activities in the wars 1912 – 1913 and 1915 – 1918 were described in a book by Emilia Kozhuharova.

266-287

Authors: R. Vladova

An annual bibliography of papers in the field of local history, family and community history, cultural heritage, folk studies and anthropology, published in 2016, is collected. The inspected journals are: Bulgarian Journal of Science and Education Policy, Chemistry: Bulgarian Journal of Science Education, Current Anthropology, Family and Community History, Folklore, History and Memory, Journal of Family History, Journal of Folklore Research, Past & Present, Winterthur Portfolio. Many of those journals are available at us under subscription.

5-10

Authors: V. Kachev

The Bulgarian hero Poruchik Dimeter Spisarevski died in air combat in the defence of Sofia against an armada of enemy planes, December 20, 1943.

61-112

Authors: A. Strigachev

This paper is devoted to the history of the socialist movement in Bulgaria and, in particular, to the evolution of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, later called Communist Party. The reasons for the rise of the revolutionary movement that led to the anti-fascist uprising in 1923 and its inevitable end were discussed. The paper critically analyzes the policy of the party when it became a ruling one and its power became authoritarian, falling into the hands of its leader. The reasons for the failure of the Stalinist type of "communism" imposed in Bulgaria by external circumstances as a result of the Second World War were considered. The discrepancy between the theory of Marxism and the Party’s prac-tice is highlighted and theoretical and practical conclusions are made.

133-143

Authors: B. V. Toshev

The Glavhevs’ – old and esteem Belogradchik family – the book by Dr. B. Popvassileva – Belangé gives the history of the family and the course of life of its representatives. The author, with a dissertation in Philology from Paris, also belongs to this famous family.

209-240

Authors: B. V. Toshev

Short profiles of famous Belogradchik citizens, jokingly written, were published in the newspaper Vedernik, Belogradchik (1930-1931).