Roumen Daskalov
Roumen Daskalov is Professor at the New Bulgarian University, Sofia and Recurrent Visiting Professor at Central European University, Budapest.
Roumen Daskalov
The Making of a Nation in the Balkans
The nineteenth century was the epoch of nation building for the Bulgarians under Ottoman rule. In this book, comparisons and analogies are made between the Bulgarian Revival and other regions, epochs, ideological trends, and events. These latter are taken from two major areas—Western Europe ("Renaissance," "Enlightenment," "Romanticism," the French Revolution, and national liberation movements), and Russia (the "agrarian question," "populism" and "utopian socialism," "revolutionary democrats," and the Russian Revolution of 1905).
Historical facts about the Revival were instrumentalized for political purposes, such as the fostering of national and state loyalties through the reproduction of identities, or, directly, as the legitimating/contesting of a current political regime under the guise of disputes over historical legacy. Ideological mobilization took place in the form of nationalism, right-wing authoritarianism (shading into fascism), and communism. The author sets in relief some of the mechanisms and logic of the two grand narratives under the sign of nationalism, and of Marxism.
Author
- Title
- The Making of a Nation in the Balkans
- Author
- Roumen Daskalov
- Price
- € 145,00
- ISBN
- 9786155211171
- Format
- eBook PDF (Adobe DRM)
- Number of pages
- 290
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 10 - 03 - 2004
- Discipline
- Academic - History and Politics
- Imprint
- CEU Press
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
