Welcome to Transition Dialogue!
As practitioners of history and civic education, our network is committed to the critical evaluation of the period of post-socialist transformation from 1989 onward, to investigating the ways of coming to terms with its political consequences in the present-day societies, and to providing educational resources on transition and how it can be approached by teachers and educators. More details about our network and video interviews with our partners
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THE ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF TRANSITION TAUGHT THROUGH THE ACCIDENTS OF BIRTH GAME Examples from Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, and Poland Authors: Vedrana Pribičević & Bistra Stoimenova Download PDF I. Overview This lesson plan uses storytelling and characterization to describe the economic and institutional landscape of communism/socialism
PUBLIC MEMORY, DEALING WITH THE PAST, COMPETING MEMORIES Examples from Bulgaria, Lithuania and Poland Authors: Bistra Stoimenova, Alicja Pacewicz & Aiguste Starkutė Download PDF I. Overview The lesson focuses on issues related to public memory, dealing with the communist past, and competing memories in three
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT? TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN POST-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES Examples from Bulgaria, Germany, Lithuania and Poland. Authors: Stanisław Zakroczymski, Aiguste Starkutė, Momchil Metodiev & Alicja Pacewicz Download PDF I. Overview This lesson offers insight into complex issues connected with transitional justice in post-communist countries. The pivotal
THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY Examples from Bulgaria, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine Authors: Alicja Pacewicz, Olena Pravylo, Leonie Sichtermann, Louisa Slavkova & Giedrė Tumosaitė Download PDF I. Overview The lesson plan outlines a working definition of civil society and its
BULGARIA: People and Monumants During Times of Transition Author: Bistra Stoimenova Download PDF I. Overview The focus of this lesson is the issues regarding the cultural heritage of the communist regime, such as monuments and other architectural sites, the variety of attitudes towards this during
CROATIA: What is (Economic) Transition? – Economic Transition from The 1980s Onwards Authors: Vedran Ristić, Vedrana Pribičević & Caroline Hornstein Tomić Download PDF I. Overview This lesson focuses on tourism as a case study to teach students about the transition from a command to a
GERMANY: Victims and Perpetrators in The Trials Against The Socalled Wall-shooters. How Can a Constitutional State Today Judge Past Injusties? Authors: Barbara Christophe & Veronika Ludwig Download PDF I. Overview The teaching unit consists of two double lessons and one single lesson. It is aimed
LITHUANIA: The Transition Period in Lithuania: Social, Cultural, and Economic Challenges Authors: Giedrė Tumosaitė, Tomas Vaitkūnas & Vaidotas Steponavičius Download PDF I. Overview This lesson aims to help students identify problems related to the social, cultural, and economic aspects of the period of transition to
