THE LAST YEAR: BULGARIA AND THE SOVIET BLOC COUNTRIES IN 1989 (Ostatni rok: Bulgaria i kraje bloku sowieckiego w 1989 roku)

• Authors: Baewa Iskra
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Upon the basis of documents kept in the former Central Party Archive (today: part of the Central State Archive of Bulgaria, with a seat in Sofia), the author presents the last months of the communist system within the so-called external Soviet empire, prior to its fall in the autumn of 1989. Against the backdrop of the economic crisis of the system and the disintegration of the ruling elites, the article considers the economic problems and the socio-political upheaval in Bulgaria (including the Bulgarisation of the Bulgarian Turks, conducted by the Todor Zhivkov team) as well as in other states of the Soviet bloc. The article also depicts the political transformations in Poland, initiated in the spring and autumn of 1989 after the 'Round Table' talks and the partly free parliamentary elections won by 'Solidarity'. The author discusses the outcome of the impact of these events upon the radicalisation of the inner political situation in the states of real socialism and Moscow's attitude to the then political leaders of Bulgaria.

Keywords

EN

BULGARIA AND THE SOVIET BLOC COUNTRIES; BULGARIA-SOVIET RELATIONS; BULGARISATION OF THE BULGARIAN TURKS; TODOR ZHIVKOV

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN w Warszawie
• Journal: Studia z Dziejów Rosji i Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 44
• Pages: 199-214
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Baewa Iskra

• Associate Professor at Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA10268