The sites below include primary sources on the communist period in Albania, including the 11th Festival and official policies on women’s emancipation. While there is very little research that includes the condition of women in particular, or more generally gender issues during communism, the primary sources below can be explored to understand the official positions on women and the context for the
The Regime, Women, and the Long Sixties
Qendra Shqiptare për Rehabilitimin e Traumës dhe Torturës. Gratë E Përndjekura Politikisht: Gjatë Periudhës Së Diktaturës Komuniste : Studim. [Tiranë]: Botime ARCT, 2006.
Roberto Agostini. “The Italian ‘Canzone’ and the Sanremo Festival: Change and Continuity in Italian Mainstream Pop of the 1960s.” Popular Music 26, no. 3 (2007): 389–408.
Albania after 1972
The following links contain articles, interviews, documentaries and other conversations in Albanian with dissidents and other survivors of the communist period and the long sixties in general.
Edi Luarasi mban lidhje me nje armik: Cencorship and film after the Festivali 11.
Fatos Lubonja – Jeta ime, February 7, 2008: Famous writer and dissident, Fatos Lubonja, discusses his life and the influence of the long sixties in Albania. Interview by RTV Klan show Opinion. Festival 11 conversation at 34:00. Fatos Lubonja is the son of Todi Lubonja who was the director of the national television at the time of Festivali 11.
Digital Archives on the Communist Period
Memorie.al: https://memorie.al/en/ A mammoth site in Albanian and English that publishes news, interviews, and many archival records from the communist period. The focus of Memorie.al are previously secret archives of the communist regime to uncover crimes during the communist period. Images and materials cannot be used without permission.
Digital Archives on Enver Hoxha and his regime
The archives below are included here strictly as a research resource to explore any topic of his regime. On the whole they contain almost the writings of Enver Hoxha, much of it translated to English. There are no copyright restrictions on the use of any of the digitized materials included in these sites.
- Enver Hoxha Archive – https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/
A brief biography of Enver Hoxha collected and hosted by Marxists Internet Archive. Contains a collection of Hoxha’s writings published from 1944- 1984 as digitized eBooks and documents. The entire site is in English. - http://www.enverhoxha.ru – An extensive collection of digitized books, artwork, and images written by and about Enver Hoxha and Albania under his rule. There are no copyright limits to the use of materials.
The site is in Russian, but can be translated to English when opened on Chrome. Digitized materials are primarily in Russian, but include a large number of Albanian and English texts. - enver-hoxha.net – http://www.enver-hoxha.net/content/content_shqip/librat/librat.htm – Contains the complete published works of Enver Hoxha throughout his life in Albanian
http://www.enver-hoxha.net/content/content_english/books/books.htm: A selection of Hoxha’s books in English
http://www.enver-hoxha.net/content/content_deutsch/buecher/buecher.htm: A selection of Hoxha’s books in German
