Българският общ народен студентски съюз и полицията (1930 – 1934 г.)
The Bulgarian General National Union of Students and the Police (1930-1934)
Author(s): Boris BoevSubject(s): History, Social Sciences, Sociology, History of ideas, Military history, Political history, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), Social development, Social differentiation, Family and social welfare, Demography and human biology, Social Informatics, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, Social Norms / Social Control, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: students’ organizations; Bulgarian General National Union of Students; People’s Block; repressive actions
Summary/Abstract: The article aims to reveal in most general terms the police actions against one of the major Bulgarian students’ organizations during the 30s of the 20th century. Documents from the archives of the Ministry of Interior and of Sofia District Court and studies on the police and on the justice system of the period have been used. Some of the main methods of collecting information and neutralizing the activity of the Bulgarian General National Union of Students (BGNUS) used by the state and its repressive bodies are revealed. Examples of the systematic violation of university autonomy by the police are provided but also examples of the popularity, which BGNUS acquires among students despite the prosecution and the semi-legal status of the organization. In view of the revealed data, it becomes questionable whether the government of Andrey Lyapchev and of the People’s Block during whose period of office BGNUS was constituted and developed its activities, has been of democratic nature (as supposed today by a large number of modern historians).
Journal: История
- Issue Year: 24/2016
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 152-162
- Page Count: 11
- Language: Bulgarian
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