Debating the Past: Modern Bulgarian History : from Stambolov to Zhivkov

· Central European University Press
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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Stambolov, the Russophiles, and the Russophobes in Bulgaria -- Initial Interpretations of the Stambolov Era -- The Marxist Historians on Stambolov's Regime -- Towards Stambolov's Rehabilitation -- After the Fall of the Communist Regime -- CITED LITERATURE -- CHAPTER 2 The Rule of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union and the "Worker-Peasant Alliance"--The Road to Power -- Agrarian Rule: Ideology and Reforms -- Interpretation and Assessments -- Aleksandŭr Stamboliiski -- The Agrarian Union and the "Unity of Action" with the Bulgarian Communist Party -- CITED LITERATURE -- CHAPTER 3 The Debate on Fascism and the Anti-fascist Struggles -- The Long Fascism and the Breaches in It -- "Monarcho-Fascism" -- Bulgaria and Hitler's Germany -- Anti-Fascism and the Struggle against Fascism -- After Communism -- CITED LITERATURE -- CHAPTER 4 September Ninth, "People's Democracy" and Socialism -- September Ninth -- "People's Democracy" (1944-1948) -- Socialism in Progress -- After Socialism, about Socialism: September Ninth Revisited -- The People's-Democratic Transition -- Georgi Dimitrov -- The Macedonian Question -- The Repressions -- Bulgarian Totalitarianism -- The Zhivkov Era and Descriptions of the System -- Socialist Modernization -- Aspects of the System -- CITED LITERATURE -- CONCLUSION The Truth and Objectivity Question in Bulgarian Historical Scholarship -- CITED LITERATURE -- Transliteration.

About the author

Roumen Daskalov is Professor at the New Bulgarian University, Sofia and Recurrent Visiting Professor at Central European University, Budapest.

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