В лабиринте национальной политики. Советский фактор и проблема мусульманского населения в Болгарии (40-е – 60-е годы ХХ века)
In the Labyrinth of National Policy. The Soviet Factor and the Issue of the Muslim Population in Bulgaria (The 40-60’s of the 20th century)

Summary/Abstract: The article describes the Muslim problem in Bulgaria in the 1940-1960’s and the role of the Soviet factor in its solution. Based on documents from the Russian and Bulgarian archives and on historical researches, it analyzes the causes of the abrupt changes in the Bulgarian policy in relation to the Bulgarian Turks and Pomaks. The Soviet side also repeatedly changes its attitude towards the Bulgarian policy of resettlement of the Muslims and their assimilation, but eventually determines it as futureless. However, Moscow understands the motives of the Bulgarian leaders, and above all – the fear to upset the balance in the ethnic and religious structure of the country in favor of the Turkish component. The Bulgarian leaders find themselves wrapped up in the maze of nationalist policy and therefore cannot find a guiding “thread of Ariadne”. This later leads them on the path of ethnocentrism, which finds its crudest form in the so-called revival process.

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