Editorial

This is our first issue for 2011....

Author: Dr. Kostadin Grozev, Associate Professor, Chair of Modern and Contemporary World History, Faculty of History, Sofia University

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Bulgaria and the European Union, 1988-2006

I. Introduction

From 1945 until 1989 Bulgaria had followed with consistency the same foreign policy line of attachment to the Soviet Union and the Eastern Block, gaining the reputation of the most loyal ally/‘satellite’ of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe (*1) . The country’s given position in the international system was unchallenged, as was the dominant ideology (communism) that defined Bulg...

Author: Dr. Yorgos Christidis, Assistant Professor at the Department of Balkan Studies, University of Western Macedonia, Greece

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Courageous fighter: Bonner never gave up on freedom in Soviet Union

BOSTON AND the entire world lost a true hero with the death this weekend of Elena Bonner, an ardent champion of freedom and human rights in the Soviet Union and in post-Soviet Russia, who was married to the great Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov.

Bonner, 88, who was partly Jewish and partly Armenian, had lived through the Stalinist terror of the 1930s, when both of her parents were arrested by the Soviet secret police. Her father w...

Author: Prof. Mark Kramer, Harvard University, USA

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