ДВЕ МОДЕЛИ АМЕРИКАНСКОЙ УТОПИИ (НА ПРИМЕРЕ ПРОИЗВЕДЕНИЙ Э. БЕЛЛАМИ И Р. ХАЙНЛАЙНА)

Author(s): Dmitry Evgenievich Martynov / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2016

This paper is devoted to the utopian genre in the United States during the period of 1880–1940. Practical orientation of the society for implementation of the utopia is a specific feature of the utopian consciousness, as well as, therefore, of the utopian fiction in America. The United States embraced the European tradition of constructing a utopian ideal, in which inversion allowing the imagination to simultaneously overcome the reality and create a radically different world is the main method. Whereas egalitarianism was the ideal of European utopianists, the American utopia very early took the idea of justice; it was more associated with the equality of opportunities, rather than with the equality of property and consumption. Thus, E. Bellamy’s utopian novel “Looking Backward, 2000–1887” (1888), with no literary merit, made a revolution in the minds of both the United States and Europe, thereby laying the basis for a number of major social trends, especially in the sphere of consumption. R. Heinlein made an attempt to create his own utopian ideal in the second half of the 1930s. He faced the misunderstanding among publishers and completely switched to writing commercial science fiction.

«БЫТЬ ПОЛЯКОМ»: О НАЦИОНАЛЬНОЙ ИДЕНТИЧНОСТИ ПОЛЯКОВ САМАРСКОЙ ГУБЕРНИИ ВО ВТОРОЙ ПОЛОВИНЕ XIX – НАЧАЛЕ ХХ В.

Author(s): Elena Nikolaevna Vialtseva,Vladimir Vladimirovich Kutiavin / Language(s): Russian Issue: 3/2016

The paper describes the institutions and mechanisms of national self-identification of members of the Polish diaspora in Samara province during the second half of the 19th – the beginning of the 20th century. The Polish diaspora in Samara consisted from exiled participants of the uprising of 1863–1864 and economic migrants. The national identity of Samara Poles is described with the help of statistics and official documents, because there are no private sources covering this problem. On the whole, 99.4% of Poles in Samara province were Catholics and 76.5% of Catholics in Samara city were Poles. The important organizations for preservation of the national identity were opened in the Catholic Church: school and library. The Poles tried to avoid inter-confessional marriages and gave their children traditional Polish names. The First World War increased the influx of refugees and led to a growth of activity of the Polish diaspora in Samara. During this period, Polish scout organizations and the club called “Polish House”, where Poles played in theatre and read lectures about Polish literature, appeared in the city. Samara Poles successfully resisted the assimilation processes by creating a system of institutions (religious, educational, and cultural), which allowed them to maintain and strengthen the national identity – “being the Pole”. It means that the Polish diaspora in Samara province, as well as the large Polonia, was a part of the entire Polish nation and contributed its collective experience to the development of modern Polish nation.

Паметни бележки на Българския патриарх Кирил за срещите и разговорите си с протойерей д-р Славко Димевски през 1964 година

Author(s): Svetlozar Eldarov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2016

Записки по българска история на С. С. Бобчев от 1867–1868 г.

Author(s): Petar Parvanov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2014

The text presents an unpublished source for Bulgarian development. Notes on Bulgarian history written by S. S. Bobchev in 1867-1868 years. They tracked Bulgarian history from antiquity to the time of their writing. Records give insight into the understanding of Bulgarian history during the 19th century, seen through the eyes of a fourteen to fifteen-years-old boy.

Градоустройство и модерност: Пловдив в навечерието на ХХ век

Author(s): Ivanka Miteva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3-4/2017

In 1878, besides being the capital of Rumelia, Plovdiv was also the largest and most industrially and culturally developed city in the Bulgarian lands. Over the next two decades, until the end of the 19th century, in this really big Bulgarian city many different things happened, but two remarkable events have significant and crucial importance for its future development – The Unification of Bulgaria in 1885 and the agricultural and industrial exhibition in Plovdiv in 1892. The Unification changed its status from a metropolitan to a provincial city and the exhibition – a demonstration of modernization efforts – presented, albeit in a minimized way, the model of the new urban space and its development perspective. What did Plovdiv look like on the eve of the 20th century – like a European or like an Oriental city? The answer to this question is the aim of this study, based on a multitude of different historical sources.

Нормативна уредба и организация на солодобива в Поморие за периода 1878–1951 година

Author(s): Milcho Skumov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5-6/2017

The sea salt harvesting is a traditional livelihood in Pomorie. From 1878 when the rebuilding of the Bulgarian state started to 1951, when the salt-works became state property, two of the main tasks of the state and local regulations were the protection of the salt-works and the city from the strong sea storms and the improvement of salt production. In 1936 a situation was reached, which satisfied all participants in this economic activity. The established Pomorie Salt-Works Fund was a successful form of organization which was proven by the results achieved. It combined proper organization, professional management and good financing.

Светите места в село Драгушиново

Author(s): Georgi Zahov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 16/2018

The main aim of the article is to enlist the holy places in the village of Dragushinovo, Samokov area. They are the following: church ‘St. Teodor Tiron’; chapel ‘Holy Spirit’ and the sacred site ‘Krasto’. The church is located in the centre of the village of Dragushinovo. It was sanctified in 1869 and it was dedicated to St. TeodorTiron (Theo¬dore of Amasea). Traditionally, a special crab cake is made on this day. The walls of the church were painted by zograf Mihail Belstoynev from Samokov. The chapel ‘Holy Spirit’ is located on top of peak Dabeto, located two kilometers away from Dragushinovo. The holiday of the Holy Spirit is celebrated by the miners from the area. The sacred site ‘Krasto’ is located on top of the ridge peak. The place marks the spot where an old sacred cross was situated. The local people gathered there to take part in the local fair.

Encomia in the Slavonic Сopies of Euthymius Zigabenos’s Panoplia Dogmatike

Author(s): Mariyana Tsibranska-Kostova / Language(s): English Issue: 3-4/2017

The paper examines the texts encomia in the Slavonic copies that contain the First and the Second book of Euthymios Zigabenos’s 12th century Panoplia Dogmatike. The focus is on the following written evidence: the Slavonic translation of PD First book from the first to the 11th chapter included in two manuscripts: HM.SMS 186 – a 16th century copy from Hilandar monastery, and another 16th century manuscript – miscellany III c 16, Mihanovich collection in HAZU; the only copy containing the Second Book of PD in Slavonic – Ms. Slav. BAR 296 from the repository in the Library of the Romanian Academy of Sciences in Bucharest, dated from the very beginning of the 15th century; the famous Zagreb miscellany of Vladislav the Grammarian from 1469 with excerpts from PD. The texts of encomia are published as a complex for the first time. The author sustains the hypothesis that the Slavonic translation of PD had a close connection with the Athonite monastic brotherhood, whose orthodoxy and orthopraxy was the main engine for both the appearance of the translation, and its subsequent use and spread, especially in Ottoman times, when the Orthodoxy, more than ever, needed the dogmatic bases of its identity. The article tries to answer the question about the role of encomia in this process.

Demeter, Gábor. Diplomatic Struggle for Supremacy over the Balkan Peninsula, 1878–1914. Collected Studies. Publications of the Bulgarian-Hungarian History Commission. Sofia, 2017. 159 p.

Author(s): Penka Peykovska / Language(s): English Issue: 3-4/2017

Book review

The power of the Russian Empire – the military aspect in the work of selected Russian painters from the 18th until the early 20th century

Author(s): Paweł Krokosz / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2018

The article focuses on the military themes presented in the paintings of Russian artists living in the period from the 18th until the early 20th century. Battle scenes painted by the artists highlighted the heroism of the Tsar’s soldiers participating in numerous wars and conflicts pursued by Russia at that time both on land and at sea; these paintings also celebrated the rulers, who expanded the borders of their country. However, the key message of these paintings, which were ordered most frequently by Russian rulers, focused on the aspect of propaganda, because these works were supposed to demonstrate in full the power of the Russian Empire.

Ангел Букорещлиев: Животоописание във фотографии

Author(s): Lora Hristozova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2019

The present article offers a possible interpretation of a small part of the photographs of Angel Bukoreshtliev – one of the most significant figures of the music life of Plovdiv and the rest of the country in the first half of the 20th century – kept in the MusicalInstruments and Ritual Requisite Fund of the Regional Ethnographic Museum – Plovdiv. The photographs selected for the purpose of the analysis enable us to “read“ the life of Bukoreshtliev from the perspective of his and his family’s social standing and in the context of the development of the Bulgarian photography. On the one hand, having in mind the fact that photography was a luxury until the Balkan Wars and photographic services were within reach of the people of higher social standing, his biography bears record of his belonging to the more well-to-do strata of the society as well as of his successful music and pedagogical career. On the other hand, the photographs selected give us information about the photographers (the Karastoyanovbrothers, V. Velebni, A. Andreev etc.) in Sofia and Plovdiv in that period, about the people they used to photograph, about the people who chose their photo studios etc. The photographs here presented were never published; thus, they introduce a new touch to the research field of the Bulgarian music life. The music funds could give answers to even more questions which may be subjects of other studies.

Българският ХХ век в изкуствата и културата

Author(s): Sasha Lozanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

В новите броеве на списанията на издателство ,,Аз-буки“ четете

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2019

Brojčano kretanje Židova na području Bjelovarsko-križevačke županije (1857. - 1918.)

Author(s): Ljiljana Dobrovšak / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 4/2011

The paper states some of the most basic historical and statistic data regarding the Jewish community in the Bjelovar-Križevci County between 1857 and 1918. In the period between 1857 and 1922, the name and the borders of the Bjelovar-Križevci County changed on several occasions (the Bjelovar County, particularly the Križevci County, then the Bjelovar-Križevci County, and finally the Bjelovar-Bilogora County); similarly did the borders of the interior districts, which fact hindered the research to a certain extent. Hence, this paper focuses on the demographic changes in the period between the census of 1880 and the census of 1910. Though the presence of the first Jews in the area of the Bjelovar-Križevci County was recorded rather early – at the beginning of the 19th century, more precise demographic reports are dated only after 1851, or rather 1857 – the year of the first official census. Each of the censuses between the 1850s and 1918 (1857, 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910) listed a higher number of Jews; finally, in 1910, 2,406 Jews inhabited the Bjelovar-Križevci County, mostly the Bjelovar district and the County’s urban area (Bjelovar, Koprivnica and Križevci). In the area of the Berak Municipality, very few Jews lived (a couple of families), while they had never inhabited Podgarić.

Указания за авторите

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 5/2016

Участието на Тодор Бурмов в изготвянето на първоначалния проект за Органически устав на Българското княжество

Author(s): Kostadin Paev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2019

The views of Todor Bourmov for the government of Bulgaria are reflected in a document stored in Russian archives. At the first its publication,the document was defined as a response of one of the Bulgarian notables – Todor Bourmov – to the questions of the Russian civil administration in Bulgaria from1878, and in the second – as rules for the election of a Bulgarian prince. According contained in this article concept, in both cases there are errors and inaccuracies, but in principle, the document itself contains a number of provisions found a place in the initial draft of the Organic Statute of the Bulgarian principality.

Различните наративи за село Карлуково

Author(s): Yoana Ivanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 17/2019

The paper aims to show how a current place can be an embodiment of multiple collective perceptions of cultural reality. Karlukovo is a small village in northern Bulgaria and it is very good example for that hypothesis. On the one hand, it is a popular touristic place for its natural gifts – there is a cave nearby, which is a natural phenomenon for its two holes in the form of eyes on the roof of the cave. On the other hand, “Karlukovo” is a stereotype both for “madhause” and for gypsies. The reason for that is the local mental hospital, which is famous around Bulgarians and is known, that it hosts the most difficult psychological cases. Next to it, for several years the Bulgarian media spread information about crimes, where many houses have been robbed. As half of the local population is migrated gypsies, many people thought that gypsies are the offenders (even that this may not be the reality). On third place, the village is a site for the native’s collective memory, which saves myths, family stories, songs, collaborations, festivals, etc. The locals do not support the narrative of the mental house. For them the hospital is outside the village, it is part of the governmental health infrastructure, and it is just a coincidence that its location is close to the village. This makes them struggling with the common stereotype of the mad house. Yet, for the last 2 years Prohodna cave gains popularity and tourism is growing. The common perception of Karlukovo is changing and getting more and more pleasant. All of this shows how a single site can adopt multiple, inconstant and changeable narratives.

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Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 6/2019

Нов изследователски поглед върху историята на Oсманската империя от края на XVI и първата половина на XVII век

Author(s): Dimitar Nitsov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2016

An Overview of the History of the Ottoman Empire from the End of the 16th and the First Half of the 17th Century

Бележки върху демографската, религиозната и стопанската история на селищата по поречието на Въча през последната четвърт на XV – XVI в.

Author(s): Damian Borisov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2016

This study aims to trace in detail the development of demographic and religious processes in the settlements along the river Vacha during the last quarter of the 15th century – 16th century using data from Ottoman registers.