PREFACE
INTRODUCTION: FROM METAPHOR TOWARD HISTORICAL EPOCH
CHAPTER ONE: MEANINGS OF THE REVIVAL (I) NATIONAL AND CULTURAL
* THE NATIONAL INTERPRETATION
* CONCEPTS OF THE (BULGARIAN) NATION
* NATIONALISM AND ROMANTICISM
* THE NATIONAL AND THE SPIRITUAL (CULTURAL) MEANINGS
* THE ANALOGY WITH THE RENAISSANCE
* THE BULGARIAN REVIVAL AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT
* ANALOGIES WITH THE REFORMATION
* THE BULGARIAN REVIVAL AND EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT
* MODERNITY AND MODERNIZATION
CHAPTER TWO: MEANINGS OF THE REVIVAL (II) ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL
* THE TRANSITION FROM FEUDALISM TO CAPITALISM
* CAPITALISM DURING THE REVIVAL
* OTTOMAN FEUDALISM
* THE SOCIAL (BOURGEOIS) REVOLUTION AND THE AGRARIAN THESIS
* THE ECONOMIC AND THE NATIONAL-SPIRITUAL INTERPRETATION
EXCURSUS ON PERIODIZATION
CHAPTER THREE: CLASSES AND CLASS STRUGGLES
* THE URBAN "ESTATE" AND SOCIAL STRUGGLES IN OLDER
HISTORIOGRAPHY
* BOURGEOISIE AND NOTABLES IN EARLIER MARXIST CONTROVERSIES
* TOWARD REHABILITATION
* THE PEASANTS
* THE INTELLIGENTSIA
* THE CLASS STRUGGLES BETWEEN THE SOCIAL AND NATIONAL
* VULGAR MARXIST SOCIOLOGISM AND ITS ABANDONING
CHAPTER FOUR: PATHS OF THE REVIVAL AND NATIONAL HEROES
* PAISII AS A PROBLEM
* EVOLUTIONISTS AND REVOLUTIONARIES
* THE HIERARCHY OF NATIONAL HEROES: RAKOVSKI, KARAVELOV, LEVSKI,
BOTEV. REAPPRAISALS AND RESHUFFLING
CHAPTER FIVE: THE APRIL UPRISING, THE RUSSO-TURKISH LIBERATION WAR,
AND THE REVOLUTION
* THE APRIL UPRISING AND THE RUSSO-TURKISH WAR
* THE REVOLUTION
* REVISIONS AND REAPPRAISAL
CHAPTER SIX: THE CONTINUING REVIVAL: SYMBOLIC STRUGGLES AND
IMAGES
* RIGHTIST VISIONS OF THE BULGARIAN REVIVAL
* THE DEMOCRATIC IMAGE
* THE BATTLE OF THE COMMUNISTS FOR THE LEGACY OF THE REVIVAL
EPILOGUE: THE BULGARIAN REVIVAL AS A NATIONAL MYTH
Roumen Daskalov is Professor at the New Bulgarian University, Sofia and Recurrent Visiting Professor at Central European University, Budapest.
"Roumen Daskalov's book breaks new ground. It is unusual in the
East European field in that it offers a thorough historiographical
review, peppered with theoretical analysis, on one discrete period
in a nation's history. Perhaps the most interesting moments in the
text are Daskalov's own profound insights on the revival period and
Bulgarian historical wirting in general."
*American Historical Review*
"Combines painstaking scholarship with thorough and incisive
analysis to create a book that will become the definitive work on
the subject. This book is the result of years of meticulous and
thorough reading of the Bulgarian standards in history as well as
literary criticism... The book is especially helpful when the
author points out the ideological twists communist era historians
put into the Bulgarian revival narrative. Those parts of the book
would be useful to anyone who wishes to understand how Marxism is
used to rewrite the past."
*Slavic Review*
"Rumen Daskalov bietet aus des Innenperspektive einen souveränen
Überblick über die Wege und Irrwege der Bulgarischen
Historiographie. Immer wieder wird hervorgehoben, dass der
Glorifizierung von 'Helden" des angeblich sozialrevolutinären
Lagers die Stigmatisierung der Gemeindevorsteher oder 'Notablen'
(tsorbadzi) zu vermeintlichen 'Verrätern' gegenüberstand. Was im
Rahmen aller bisherigen Ansätze zu kurz zu kam, sind sowohl die
Bedingungen des Alltags als auch die Rolle des historischen
Erinnerung für die kleinstädtische Elite einerseits und für die
Dorfgemeinschaft andererseits. In diesem Zusemmanhang stellt sich
für die Wiedergeburtszeit nicht nur die Frage, warum die osmanische
Periode der bulgarischen Geschichte aus dem öffentlichen
Bewusstsein ausgeblendet wurde, sondern auch danach, welches
Potenital die beiden mittelalterlichen bulgarischen Reiche für die
Zeitgenössische Orientierung tatsächlich zu bieten hatten"
*Südost-Forschungen*
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