The making of a nation in the Balkans : historiography of the Bulgarian revival / by Roumen Daskalov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daskalov, Rumen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--Bulgaria--History--19th century.

Nationalism.

Bulgaria--History--1762-1878--Historiography.

Bulgaria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Historiography of the Bulgarian revival

Place of Publication:

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

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

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

Paisii as a problem

Evolutionists and revolutionaries

The hierarchy of national heroes : Rakovski, Karavelov, Levski, Botev : reappraisals and reshuffling

The April uprising and the Russo-Turkish war

The revolution

Revisions and reappraisal

Rightist visions of the Bulgarian revival

The democratic image

The battle of the Communists for the legacy of the revival.

Notes:

Bibliogr. p. 259-281.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-281) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-003-72273-3

615-5211-17-5

1-281-37678-7

9786611376789

1-4175-0226-6

9781003722731

OCLC:

55082382