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 and explains how three main pillars of transformation – stabilization, […]

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 countries: Bulgaria, Poland, and Lithuania. Throughout the lesson students will

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 questions which students consider include: How should we deal with