Glenn E. Curtis, ed. Bulgaria: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress,
1992.
Acknowledgments
Preface
Historical Setting
EARLY SETTLEMENT AND EMPIRE
Pre-Bulgarian Civilizations
The Slavs and the Bulgars
The First Golden Age
The Second Golden Age
OTTOMAN RULE
NATIONAL REVIVAL, EARLY STAGES
BULGARIAN INDEPENDENCE
DECADES OF NATIONAL CONSOLIDATION
THE BALKAN WARS
WORLD WAR I
Stamboliiski
The Tsankov and Liapchev Governments
The Crises of the 1930s
The Interwar Economy
Foreign Policy in the Late 1930s
WORLD WAR II
COMMUNISM
THE ZHIVKOV ERA
The Society and Environment
GEOGRAPHY
POPULATION
MINORITIES
RELIGION
SOCIETY
SOCIAL SERVICES
Health
Education
The Economy
RESOURCES
LABOR FORCE
ECONOMIC STRUCTURE
ECONOMIC POLICY AND PERFORMANCE
ECONOMIC SECTORS
Fuels
Energy Generation
Industry
Agriculture
BANKING AND FINANCE
FOREIGN TRADE
Government and Politics
THE PREWAR POLITICAL CONTEXT
THE EARLY COMMUNIST ERA
THE ZHIVKOV ERA
GOVERNANCE AFTER ZHIVKOV
GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE
NONGOVERNMENTAL POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS
The Bulgarian Communist (Socialist) Party
The Union of Democratic Forces
Trade Unions
Youth Organizations
The Movement for Rights and Freedoms
Ecological Organizations and Revived Prewar Parties
The Monarchist Movement
THE PUBLIC AND POLITICAL DECISION MAKING
FOREIGN POLICY
Relations with
Yugoslavia,
Romania,
Greece and
Turkey
The Soviet Union
Western Europe and the United States
Bibliography
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