Bulgaria In Transition

John D. Bell is professor of history at UMBC in Maryland and is a past president of the Bulgarian Studies Association. He has written numerous articles on Bulgarian, Balkan, and Russian history and is the author of Peasants in Power: Alexander Stamboliski and the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union, 1899–1923 (1977), The Bulgarian Communist Party from Blagoev to Zhivkov (1986), and The Reader’s Guide to Bulgaria (1994).

• Preface -- Introduction -- Politics and Law -- A Democracy Born in Pain: Bulgarian Politics, 1989–1997 -- Popular Attitudes toward Politics -- The Constitution and the Rule of Law -- The Economy and the Environment -- Bulgarian Economic Policy and Performance, 1991–1997 -- Social Dimensions of Economic Change: Is the Private Market a Solution to Bulgaria’s Economic Problems? -- Political Change and Environmental Policy -- Ethnic and Religious Issues -- Bulgaria’s Muslim Minorities -- The “Ilindentsi” – Does Bulgaria Have a Macedonian Minority? -- The Schism in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, 1992–1997 -- Culture -- The New Bulgarian Literature: Deconstructing the Pyramid -- Canaries And Birds of Prey: The New Season of Bulgarian Cinema -- Foreign Relations -- Bulgaria in the Balkans -- Bulgaria’s Search for Security -- Appendix