"Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe" examines how gender identities were reconfigured in a Bulgarian Muslim community following the demise of Communism and an influx of international aid from the Islamic world. Kristen Ghodsee conducted extensive ethnographic research among a small …
"Brilliant ... An outstanding demonstration of how analysis of the paradoxes of the postsocialist condition can contribute to anthropological theory and to the critique of Europ-American notions of modernity."--Chris Hann, Max Planck Institute For Social Anthropology. "Masterfu…
Georgi Dimitrov burst onto the international scene in 1933 as one of the Comintern operatives in Germany accused of the Reichstag fire. The Bulgarian Communist's spirited self-defence in the resulting Leipzig Trial made him a celebrity among Communists worldwide - particularly i…
Bulgaria: politics, economics, and society
Bulgaria: politics, economics and society
Bulgaria: politics, economics, and society
An examination and critical evaluation of the application of Marxist doctrine to Bulgaria, assessing its interpretations, its successes and failures, covering social and economic as well as political aspects.
