Pub Date : 2023-03-15DOI: 10.53656/his2023-2-5-att
Mario Todorov
The aim of this article is to reveal the judicial and extra-judicial factors of the trial of the VI section of the “People’s Court” in Sofia, held in the spring of 1945. The emphasis is on the legal framework, the manner of the trial, the procedure violations and the judicial and extra-judicial mechanisms used to achieve specific results, corresponding to the political goals of this trial aimed at convicting people associated with the pro-German propaganda in Bulgaria during World War II. The study applies the historical-legal method. The factors determining the trial are analyzed, as well as the penal and repressive role of the trial itself in establishing the power of the Fatherland Front after the coup of 9 September 1944.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-20DOI: 10.53656/his2023-1-7-cha
Alexander Nikolov
{"title":"Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire through the Perspective of a Bulgarian Medievalist","authors":"Alexander Nikolov","doi":"10.53656/his2023-1-7-cha","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53656/his2023-1-7-cha","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40212,"journal":{"name":"Istoriya-History","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82943016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-20DOI: 10.53656/his2023-1-8-new
Veselin Yanchev
{"title":"New Monograph on the Electoral History of Bulgaria","authors":"Veselin Yanchev","doi":"10.53656/his2023-1-8-new","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53656/his2023-1-8-new","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40212,"journal":{"name":"Istoriya-History","volume":"106 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79354910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-20DOI: 10.53656/his2023-1-6-sci
Emilia Vacheva
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Pub Date : 2023-01-20DOI: 10.53656/his2023-1-5-cha
Nikola Shindarov
This current article examines the changes that occurred in the leadership of the Bulgarian Agrarian Union in the period from November 10 to the end of 1989. The research presents the reflection of what is happening in the Bulgarian Communist Party and the country in relation to the Union, the differences in the reactions of the agrarian leaders, the main themes, which become the subject of debates by the union members, the contradictions between the BZNS leadership and the forming critical group of members, as well as the opposite positions between the structures in the country about intra-party and public issues. The topic is also presented in the light of a process coming into view not only of the political entities in the country, but also of the diplomatic corps. The purpose of the article is to shed light on the main interrelationships, causes and consequences that led to the changes at the top of the union.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-20DOI: 10.53656/his2023-1-4-uni
Hristiyan Danchev
The aim of this article is to examine the relations between the government and the theater in the first months after the coup of 9 September 1944. The main focus is on the conduct of the “purge” in the Union of the Artists in Bulgaria, which is part of the transformations in the cultural organizations after the Fatherland Front came to power. For this purpose, the method of historical analysis is applied. The study reveals that the leadership of the Union of the Artists take the initiative to “eradicate fascism in culture” by carrying out a “purge” in its rows, thus fulfilling the task set by the new government of the Fatherland Front. Data is presented on the number of members “purged”, along with information on the charges against them and the fate of some of them in the following years.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-20DOI: 10.53656/his2023-1-1-abo
Nadya Manolova-Nikolova
The article published a letter from the Metropolitan of the Diocese of Nisava Antim I, dated August 26, 1854, which refers to the Samokov painter Kostadin Petrovich Valoiv. The content of the letter allows to formulate the hypothesis that the artist worked in the interior decoration of the church “St. Petka” in the town of Trun, probably in 1853 or in the first half of 1854. The document provides information that K. Valiov resided in the town of Pirot in 1854, supplementing his biography, in which there was no information about the period from 1845 to 1856.
{"title":"About the Samokov Painter Kostadin Valyov","authors":"Nadya Manolova-Nikolova","doi":"10.53656/his2023-1-1-abo","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53656/his2023-1-1-abo","url":null,"abstract":"The article published a letter from the Metropolitan of the Diocese of Nisava Antim I, dated August 26, 1854, which refers to the Samokov painter Kostadin Petrovich Valoiv. The content of the letter allows to formulate the hypothesis that the artist worked in the interior decoration of the church “St. Petka” in the town of Trun, probably in 1853 or in the first half of 1854. The document provides information that K. Valiov resided in the town of Pirot in 1854, supplementing his biography, in which there was no information about the period from 1845 to 1856.","PeriodicalId":40212,"journal":{"name":"Istoriya-History","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89388274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-20DOI: 10.53656/his2023-1-2-pen
Vasil Zagorov, Gabriela Angelova
The article aims to create a profile of the traveling bookseller in Bulgaria in the 19th century based on existing scientific publications, archival documents, memoirs, and the notes in their books. The portrait is built on a comparative analysis of the traveling booksellers Hadji Nayden Jovanovich and Pencho Radov, popular during the Bulgarian Revival. Their activity and biography have been studied individually up until now. In this article, we compare their trading methods to those Revival booksellers who started as traveling booksellers but expanded their activity into actual business as publishers and editors – Hristodul Sichan-Nikolov, Hristo G. Danov, Dragan Manchov, and Petko Slaveikov. The purpose is to outline the patterns in the Revival book trading, which build two distinct Revival types – the unfortunate, dusty and wretched retailer (Jovanovic, Penchov) and the sagacious, organized, and modern publisher.
这篇文章旨在根据现有的科学出版物、档案文件、回忆录和书中的笔记,建立19世纪保加利亚旅行书商的形象。这幅肖像是建立在对保加利亚复兴时期流行的旅行书商哈吉·内登·约瓦诺维奇和彭乔·拉多夫的比较分析之上的。迄今为止,人们对它们的活动和生平进行了单独的研究。在这篇文章中,我们将他们的交易方式与复兴时期的书商进行比较。复兴时期的书商起初是旅行书商,但后来扩展为出版商和编辑的实际业务——Hristodul Sichan-Nikolov、Hristo G. Danov、Dragan Manchov和Petko Slaveikov。目的是概述复兴时期图书交易的模式,这些模式建立了两种截然不同的复兴时期类型——不幸的、肮脏的、可怜的零售商(约瓦诺维奇、潘霍夫)和睿智的、有组织的、现代的出版商。
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Pub Date : 2023-01-20DOI: 10.53656/his2023-1-3-the
Simeon A. Simeonov
The present study reveals the activities of the Austrian vice-consulate in Rousse along the Danubian coastline in the wake of the Hungarian Revolution (1848 – 1849). The Austrian vice-consul in the city, Emmanuel von Rössler, developed diligent intelligence and public service activities in Rousse, Vidin and Shumen, with which he privileged Habsburg loyalists and hindered the activity of separatist defectors in the Ottoman Empire. In the spirit of “new” diplomatic history, the contribution pays particular attention to the relationship between the vice-consul and the many disaffected soldiers and emigrants who relied on his instructions and resources in the tense political situation after the revolutionary 1848. Also, the article rethinks the place of consular institutions in the world of international relations through the lens of transnational history, emphasizing their relative independence and presenting a more accurate picture of the active interactions between different consular missions and units. Last but not least, the study uses the methodology of “entangled” history to rethink the role of local events in the Ottoman lands between Stara Planina and the Danube in the context of the global Age of Revolutions, analyzing the processes in this region as an integral part of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary dynamics in the middle of the “long” XIX century.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.53656/his2022-6-1-bul
Simona Samuilova
The article examines Stalin's confrontation with the Bulgarian communist exiles in the USSR by the example of two political émigrés – Nediu Sakov and Petar Marinov, who were arrested during the mass purges in 1936 – 1938 and sentenced to five and three years in labor camps. For reconstruction of the experienced repressions and imprisonment in the Gulag are used published documents from the Bulgarian archives, electronic databases of the victims of political terror in the Soviet Union of the international human rights organization “Memorial”, as well as the unpublished memoirs of the two Bulgarians, stored for many years in the former Central Party Archive of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party. The comparison of documents and memoir testimonies, which contain a wide range of personal experience, helps to more completely reconstruct the repressive policy towards the Bulgarian communist emigration in the USSR during the “Great Terror” and to expand the scientific knowledge about the Bulgarians in the GULAG.
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