Political Transition and Secondary Education in Bulgaria (1944–1950): a Case Study of the First Female High School in Sofia

Abstract

The article is a case study of the First Female High School in Sofia. The main objectives are to study the transformation of an educational institution during the transitional period from authoritarian to totalitarian regime in the period of 1944-1950; to outline the characteristics of the social engineering process when the old elites are destroyed and the new ones are created; to explore the replacement of the symbolic capital of the high school.