The book is comprised of the four major debates on modern Bulgarian history from Independence in 1878 to the fall of communism in 1989. The debates are on the Bulgarian–Russian/Soviet relations, on the relations between Agrarians and Communists, on Bulgarian Fascism, and on Communism. They are associated with the rule of key political personalities in Bulgarian history: Stambolov (1887–1894), Stamboliiski (1919–1923), Tsar Boris III (1918–1943), and the communist leaders Georgi Dimitrov and Todor Zhivkov (1956–1989). The debates are traced through their various articulations and dramatic turns from their beginnings to the present day.
- 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
- Transliteration
- back cover
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