Editor’s Foreword, Jon Woronoff
Preface
Reader’s Note
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Maps
Chronology
Introduction
THE DICTIONARY
Appendixes
A. Rulers of Bulgaria
B. Bulgarian Prime Ministers and Their Terms of Office
C. Bulgarian Political Parties and Organizations
D. Bulgarian Cabinets November 1989 to Present
Bibliography
About the Author
Raymond Detrez is the founder and director of the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Ghent. He is a member of the Belgian Centre for Slavic Studies and the Belgian Society for Byzantine Studies. His interdisciplinary research is related mainly to Balkan history from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries and focuses on aspects of pre-national and national group identities.
Bulgaria was once the poorest and the least known of the Eastern
Bloc countries. After the fall of the communist regime in 1989,
Bulgaria made democratization strides, becoming a member of NATO
(2004) and the European Union (2007). Unfortunately, corruption was
rife and remains so. This edition follows the format of the
previous two, which were authored by Detrez (Univ. of Ghent); he
published the first in 1998 and is coauthor of Europe and the
Historical Legacies in the Balkans (2008). The current volume
replaces the earlier editions and, like them, supplies maps,
acronyms, abbreviations, and appendixes of political parties, heads
of state, prime ministers, and Bulgarian cabinets from 1989 to
present. The introduction covers Bulgarian political history, and
the chronology covers historical beginnings in antiquity through
November 2014. The dictionary section has been expanded and updated
with more than 700 cross-referenced entries. The fine classified
bibliography (with an introduction) is organized by subject (widely
ranging from Bulgaria's ethnicity and politics to its flora and
fauna), has been greatly enlarged with citations in English and
other languages, and includes a separate listing of Internet
resources. Summing Up: Recommended. All academic audiences; general
readers.
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Those who take more than a fleeting glance at the Dictionary must
be impressed by how thoroughly the author knows the country whose
history he is describing. He covers not only its political,
economic and social history, but also its culture, devoting, for
instance, three pages to Bulgarian cinema, a subject of which few
Western writers have knowledge. . . .This Dictionary will certainly
enlighten its readers about the past and present of a country which
does not often figure in the Western media.
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