Roumen Daskalov is Professor at the New Bulgarian University, Sofia and Recurrent Visiting Professor at Central European University, Budapest.

• INTRODUCTORY WORDS, CHAPTER 1: STAMBOLOV, THE RUSSOPHILES AND THE RUSSOPHOBES IN BULGARIA, CHAPTER 2: THE RULE OF THE BULGARIAN AGRARIAN NATIONAL UNION AND THE “WORKER-PEASANT ALLIANCE”, CHAPTER 3: THE DEBATE ON FASCISM AND THE ANTIFASCIST STRUGGLES, CHAPTER 4: SEPTEMBER NINTH, “POPULAR DEMOCRACY” AND SOCIALISM, CONCLUSION: The Truth and Objectivity Question in Bulgarian Historical Scholarship, Transliteration

"This intelligent, competent and methodologically rigorous analysis of Bulgarian historiography from the 19th century to the present is one of the few genuinely modern historiographical syntheses in the East European field. It thus contributes significantly to the gradual de-provincialization of the discipline." - Maria Todorova, Gutgsell Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Roumen Daskalov is Professor at the New Bulgarian University, Sofia and Recurrent Visiting Professor at Central European University, Budapest.

• INTRODUCTORY WORDS, CHAPTER 1: STAMBOLOV, THE RUSSOPHILES AND THE RUSSOPHOBES IN BULGARIA, CHAPTER 2: THE RULE OF THE BULGARIAN AGRARIAN NATIONAL UNION AND THE “WORKER-PEASANT ALLIANCE”, CHAPTER 3: THE DEBATE ON FASCISM AND THE ANTIFASCIST STRUGGLES, CHAPTER 4: SEPTEMBER NINTH, “POPULAR DEMOCRACY” AND SOCIALISM, CONCLUSION: The Truth and Objectivity Question in Bulgarian Historical Scholarship, Transliteration

"This intelligent, competent and methodologically rigorous analysis of Bulgarian historiography from the 19th century to the present is one of the few genuinely modern historiographical syntheses in the East European field. It thus contributes significantly to the gradual de-provincialization of the discipline." - Maria Todorova, Gutgsell Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Roumen Daskalov is Professor at the New Bulgarian University, Sofia and Recurrent Visiting Professor at Central European University, Budapest.

• INTRODUCTORY WORDS, CHAPTER 1: STAMBOLOV, THE RUSSOPHILES AND THE RUSSOPHOBES IN BULGARIA, CHAPTER 2: THE RULE OF THE BULGARIAN AGRARIAN NATIONAL UNION AND THE “WORKER-PEASANT ALLIANCE”, CHAPTER 3: THE DEBATE ON FASCISM AND THE ANTIFASCIST STRUGGLES, CHAPTER 4: SEPTEMBER NINTH, “POPULAR DEMOCRACY” AND SOCIALISM, CONCLUSION: The Truth and Objectivity Question in Bulgarian Historical Scholarship, Transliteration

"This intelligent, competent and methodologically rigorous analysis of Bulgarian historiography from the 19th century to the present is one of the few genuinely modern historiographical syntheses in the East European field. It thus contributes significantly to the gradual de-provincialization of the discipline." - Maria Todorova, Gutgsell Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign