Bulgaria under communism

by Znepolski, Ivaĭlo

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Full title :Bulgaria under communism / Ivaylo Znepolski, Mihail Gruev, Momtchil Metodiev, Martin Ivanov, Daniel Vatchkov, Ivan Elenkov and Plamen Doynow.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2019

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2019

The Physical Object

Description:xiii, 461 pages ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780815372790, 0815372795, 9780367586430, 0367586436, 1351244914, 9781351244916
oclc:on1032292381
LC Classification:DR90
Dewey Decimal:949.903/1

How should we write the history of communist Bulgaria? -- Historical background : the Communist Party's path to power -- Part I. The times of high Stalinism. Bulgaria in the shadow of Stalin ; Georgi Dimitrov and "the people's democracy" ; Bulgaria in the years of classical Stalinism ; Building the communist economy in Bulgaria ; The Bulgarian village under communism : collectivization, social change, and adaptation ; The goryani : armed resistance against communist repression ; The sovietization of Bulgaria : a basic resource for the new communist authorities ; State Security within the structure of the communist state : ruling through violence ; Education and culture within the system of the communist state ; Communist Bulgaria's foreign policy and the Cold War -- Part II. From sheepish de-Stalinization toward the consolidation of the regime and its penetration into everyday life. After Stalin : political processes within "real socialism" ; The course toward accelerated economic development and reform of the economic model ; Sovietization in the shadow of Khrushchev and the Brezhnev Doctrine ; In search of a communist model of consumer society ; Processes within society : the di…