Acknowledgements
This book is written and published as a part of the research project RomaInterbellum: Roma Civic Emancipation between the Two World Wars which has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (Grant Agreement No. 694656). It reflects only the authors’ view and the agency is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
The realisation of the book became possible thanks to the joint efforts of the project team, headed by Principal Investigator Elena Marushiakova, Senior Research fellow Vesselin Popov, and Post-Doctoral Fellow Researchers Sofiya Zahova, Raluca Bianca Roman and Aleksandar Marinov.
Numerous colleagues from different countries were directly involved in discovering, proceeding and/or commenting the sources: Adam Bartosz, Natalia Gancarz, Alicja Gontarek (Poland); Ieva Tihovska (Latvia); Pavel Baloun (Czech Republic); Tamás Hajnáczky (Hungary); Petre Matei, Viorel Achim, Iemima Ploscariu (Romania); Ion Duminica (Republic of Moldova); Danilo Šarenac, Dragoljub Acković (Serbia/Yugoslavia); Lambros Baltsiotis, Vassilis Koutsukos (Greece); Egemen Yilgür, Nurşen Gürboğa, Sinan Şanlier (Turkey); Alexander Chernykh, Viktor Shapoval, Iraida Nam (Russian Federation); Arthur Zolotarenko, Oleksandr Bielikov, Natalia Bielikova (Ukraine); Lyudmila Zhivkova, Plamena Slavova, Lilyana Kovacheva, Elka Mincheva (Bulgaria). We would like to thank all who contributed so that this book became reality.
Special tribute is due to two of our most active collaborators Nikolay Bessonov (Russian Federation), and Anna Jurová (Slovakia) whose activity was interrupted by an unexpected death.
Many other people from different countries of Central, South-Eastern and Eastern Europe supported us directly or indirectly in the preparation and writing of this book, too numerous to be listed. The University of St Andrews proved to be a welcome home for research and writing and our colleagues from the School of History have been our staunch intellectual supporters.
Our gratitude goes also to all colleagues and friends who supported us in our work, and especially the staff of the archives, libraries and museums we visited, who are too numerous to list.
Elena Marushiakova and Vesselin Popov