Емануил Попдимитров – защитник на българите от Западните покрайнини
Emanuil Popdimitrov – defender of the Bulgarians in the Western Outlands

Summary/Abstract: The text focuses on the views of the poet, university professor and public figure Emanuil Popdimitrov about the nature and objectives of the national culture, the necessity of targeted national cultural policy to build social unity and to form clear national goals. Special attention is paid to one of his project from 1934 to organize cultural activities in the country and to support the endeavours of all fields of art and, more broadly, of cultural life. Presented concepts of Popdimitrov illustrate the intellectual processes and social attitudes in Bulgarian society in the time between the two world wars.

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