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Author Sygkelos, Yannis

Title Nationalism from the left : the Bulgarian Communist Party during the Second World War and the early post-war years / by Yannis Sygkelos
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 291 pages) : illustrations
Series Balkan studies library ; v. 2
Balkan studies library ; v. 2
Contents Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Acronyms; Transliteration; Introduction; Chapter One Marxist Nationalism as Evolved by the Bcp up to 1944; Chapter Two The Nationalist Discourse in Domestic Politics; Chapter Three The Nationalist Discourse with Regard to the International Arena; Chapter Four Flagging Nationhood: Bulgarian Communist (Re)construction of the National Past; Chapter Five Flagging Nationhood: Events and Symbols; Conclusion; Appendix One Political Parties; Appendix Two Figures; Appendix Three Tables; Bibliography; Index
Summary Nationalism from the Left' analyses the case of the BCP as a Marxist institution which increasingly adopted and adapted nationalism; it contributes to the examination of the relatively underresearched field of communist national propaganda, as only in the last decade, have researchers become interested in this topic. It explains the reasons for this and provides evidence of the Party's nationalism across a number of spheres of political life: domestic and foreign policy, school text books, historiography, festivities and symbols. Thus, the Marxist nationalist discourse of the BCP was all-encom
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-286) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Bŭlgarska komunisticheska partii︠a︡ -- History
Bŭlgarska komunisticheska partii︠a︡
Communism -- Bulgaria -- History -- 20th century
Nationalism -- Bulgaria -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Parties.
Communism
Nationalism
Politics and government
Bulgaria -- Politics and government -- 1944-1990.
Bulgaria
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004192089
9004192085
9789004209497
9004209492
1283120364
9781283120364
9786613120366
6613120367