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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812935603321

Autore

Daskalov Rumen

Titolo

Debating the past : modern Bulgarian history : from Stambolov to Zhivkov / / Roumen Daskalov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Budapest ; ; New York, : Central European University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-25664-9

9786613256645

1-4619-0317-3

615-5053-53-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (367 pages)

Disciplina

949.8/02

Soggetti

Historiography - Bulgaria - History

Bulgaria History 1878-1944

Bulgaria Politics and government 1878-1944

Bulgaria History 1944-1990

Bulgaria Politics and government 1944-1990

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Stambolov, the Russophiles, and the Russophobes in Bulgaria -- The rule of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union and the "worker-peasant alliance" -- The debate on fascism and the anti-fascist struggles -- September ninth, "people's democracy," and socialism -- Conclusion: The truth and objectivity question in Bulgarian historical scholarship.

Sommario/riassunto

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.