Семейството в житейските разкази на бесарабските българи

Author(s): Zhenja Pimpireva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2016

The article is devoted to the role of life stories in the study of the family of theBessarabian Bulgarians. The eyewitnesses’ stories (or the stories of their loved ones)contain various appreciations, experiences, feelings, values, and meanings whichallow the reconstruction of their world. The study is based on the life stories collectedduring field ethnographic expeditions conducted in 2009-2010 in villages witha predominant or significant Bulgarian population in the Republic of Moldova andUkraine.The life stories are an invaluable source for the study of the Bessarabian familyin traditional and contemporary perspective. Sharing them requires a climate of trustbetween the respondents and the researcher. The life stories represent a collection ofselected facts and episodes, in which many hidden, suppressed and forgotten thingsremain beyond the narrative. Because of their subjective character, the family is representedin an estimative and emotional way enabling the identification of the trendsin its development and the judgement of its values and morals.

Цветан Тодоров (1939–2017) – апостолът на хуманизма, мечтателят за свобода

Author(s): Valentina Sharlanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2016

Дни на културното наследство в ИЕФЕМ – 2016 г.

Author(s): Petko Hristov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2016

Изложба „Д-р Евдокия Петева-Филова – завръщане в Двореца“

Author(s): Anita Komitska / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2016

Brunnbauer, Ulf. Globalizing Southeastern Europe. Emigrants, America, and the State since the Late Nineteenth Century. New York, 2016

Author(s): Valentina Sharlanova,Petia Bankova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2016

L'EUROPE AU JOUR LE JOUR. VOL 04, La Première Guerre Balkanique

Author(s): Auguste Gauvain / Language(s): French

The 14 volumes of Auguste Gauvain represent an <strong>11 Years Political Diary</strong> of the very origins of Modern Europe as it evolved in early 20th century from a multitude of disintegrations (OTTOMAN EMPIRE…), competitions between colonialist powers (BERLIN-BAGDAD….), diplomatic pinpricks (AFFAIRE AGADIR….), side-theatres of war (BALKAN WARS 1912/13…) and, finally, the unique and global catastrophe of WorldWar I.<br>The idea of Modern Europe originated simultaneously from the efforts of thousands of individual politicians, diplomats, intellectuals to find applicable ways to prevent those European « Bloodlands » (<i>Timothy D. Snyder</i> ) during their own age as well as and for the future of Europe.<br>In 1908, when Austria-Hungary implemented the annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the French journalist and Foreign-Policy expert Auguste Gauvain considered this decision of the Habsburg Empire as the beginning of a process which, more or less unavoidably, would result in a European War. Hence, he began writing a daily column on the “Event of the Day” in European politics for the French journal « Les Debats ». With few and short interruptions during WW I he did so on each day until the end of the Versailles Peace negotiations in 1919. In early 1920s he published the full collection of all these columns in 14 volumes with the title <strong>« L’Europe au Jour le Jour ».</strong><br>CEEOL has decided to re-publish all these 14 volumes and nearly 10.000 pages as a contemporary key document for understanding the very origins of Modern Europe, the historical progress it represents and the historical necessities and forces which triggered its development. Even its supra-national institution-building after WW II cannot be really understood without this historical background of a few decades before. <br><br><strong>FOR DETAILS REGARDING THIS VOLUME PLEASE DOWNLOAD PDFs FROM THE «Contents»-TAB HERE ↓↓ BELOW</strong>

L'EUROPE AU JOUR LE JOUR. VOL 09, La Guerre Européenne (Novembre 1915 – Août 1916)

Author(s): Auguste Gauvain / Language(s): French

The 14 volumes of Auguste Gauvain represent an <strong>11 Years Political Diary</strong> of the very origins of Modern Europe as it evolved in early 20th century from a multitude of disintegrations (OTTOMAN EMPIRE…), competitions between colonialist powers (BERLIN-BAGDAD….), diplomatic pinpricks (AFFAIRE AGADIR….), side-theatres of war (BALKAN WARS 1912/13…) and, finally, the unique and global catastrophe of WorldWar I.<br>The idea of Modern Europe originated simultaneously from the efforts of thousands of individual politicians, diplomats, intellectuals to find applicable ways to prevent those European « Bloodlands » (<i>Timothy D. Snyder</i> ) during their own age as well as and for the future of Europe.<br>In 1908, when Austria-Hungary implemented the annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the French journalist and Foreign-Policy expert Auguste Gauvain considered this decision of the Habsburg Empire as the beginning of a process which, more or less unavoidably, would result in a European War. Hence, he began writing a daily column on the “Event of the Day” in European politics for the French journal « Les Debats ». With few and short interruptions during WW I he did so on each day until the end of the Versailles Peace negotiations in 1919. In early 1920s he published the full collection of all these columns in 14 volumes with the title <strong>« L’Europe au Jour le Jour ».</strong><br>CEEOL has decided to re-publish all these 14 volumes and nearly 10.000 pages as a contemporary key document for understanding the very origins of Modern Europe, the historical progress it represents and the historical necessities and forces which triggered its development. Even its supra-national institution-building after WW II cannot be really understood without this historical background of a few decades before. <br><br><strong>FOR DETAILS REGARDING THIS VOLUME PLEASE DOWNLOAD PDFs FROM THE «Contents»-TAB HERE ↓↓ BELOW</strong>

LA QUESTION YOUGOSLAVE

Author(s): Auguste Gauvain / Language(s): French

The lack of interest is one of the causes of the most serious mistakes made by the Triple Entente in recent years. Its leading men, civilians and soldiers alike, realized neither the material and moral value of the forces moving in the eastern Adriatic, nor how they should be used. They took into consideration neither the warnings, nor the designs, nor the protests of the representatives of the peoples commonly known as the Balkan, although many of them had nothing in common with the Balkans. Even in a democracy, our ministers preserved the old customs of the great courts; they preferably discussed with the ambassadors of the great consecrated powers and, while showing the other heads of mission outward respect or cordiality, attached little importance to their conversation. As a result, they lost valuable opportunities to learn about things they had not been taught in their youth and which they subsequently neglected to study. They relied more on second- or third-hand intelligence, transmitted by agents who wished to please them by entering into their supposed views, than direct information from qualified foreigners with a deep knowledge of the country and the affairs they came to discuss. They were warned against men whom they held to be interested in speaking in a certain sense, though that interest might match our own. Unfortunately, the concordances were poorly discerned, even in Russia. Despite their status as Slavs, Russian ministers did not understand Yugoslav affairs any better than their Western colleagues. We will be amazed later, when it is revealed what ignorance some of the most eminent of them showed on this subject. The consequences of such errors are too terrible for us not to try to enlighten the public on a question which, by the inevitable chain of circumstances, is now at the forefront of European politics.

LES SERBES CROATES ET SLOVÈNES

Author(s): Pierre-Augustin Chaboseau / Language(s): French

As for the historical claims, we will certainly be happy when chance establishes an absolute or relative agreement between them and the new route, but there will be, in short, only aesthetic satisfaction. Today's world has neither the time nor the inclination to perpetuate the memory of more or less ancient spoliations, of more or less long usurpations. One of the essential conceptions which inspire the increasing efforts at the present time to organize an unprecedented international regime, is precisely that by virtue of which the so-called rights acquired by arms are held to be null. Finally and above all, whenever the reconciliation of systems based on geographical unity, the homogeneity of race, language, religion, the needs of military or naval defense, agricultural, industrial, commercial resources, has failed in the face of impossibilities or an excess of difficulties, the solution of the problem will be required from the popular will. There is one principle that dominates all others in our time. It is this, for example, much more than the principle of nationalities, which makes legitimate, sacred, in the eyes of all people of good sense and good faith, of all honest people, the aspirations of Alsace and from Lorraine, Slesvig, Transilvanie, Trentino. We propose to study, in the following chapters, what Yugoslavia can and should be for anyone who refers to the above ideas and feelings. (from author's introduction)

YUGOSLAVIA

Author(s): / Language(s): English

FIFTEEN historians, political scientists, and other scholars have contributed chapters to this book, designed to introduce contemporary Yugoslavia to the general reader. The result is uneven. This reviewer feels that bad judgment has occasionally been displayed in the choice of materials. Many of the individual chapters, on the other hand, are highly rewarding. // The historical chapters, by R. J. Kerner, B. E. Schmitt, and J. C. Adams, resemble tightly packed summaries of these authors’ previous books and articles. These were important contributions but were intended for specialists. The impropriety of including them here in this form is glaring, since their inclusion has apparently necessitated the exclusion of material more important for the beginning student of Yugoslavia. Of the seventy pages on “historical background” more than fifty deal with the origins, course, and aftermath of the First World War. Almost no space is devoted to the medieval period or to the period of Turkish domination: nowhere in the book, for example, can one find a clear statement of what happened at the battle of Kosovo, June 28, 1389, or of the implications of the Serbian defeat, though scholars generally agree that this is the critical moment of Serbian history from the psychological as well as from the military point of view. Nowhere is there an analysis by a historian of the Byzantine influence on the Serbs (although we are repeatedly told that it existed), nowhere a full discussion of the role played by the Orthodox Church in the development of nationalism. Yet we have a full statement of the types and quantities of ammunition available to the Serbian army in July, 1914, and a rehearsal of differences of opinion between the “academic” and “nonacademic” members of the American delegation at the peace conference. Some of this distortion is removed by the excellent brief chapter of Alex Dragnich, on “Social Structure”, which, alone in the book, gives due weight to the earlier period. (REVIEW by ROBERT LEE WOLFF in The American Historical Review, Vol 55, 1 [1949])

Les Rapports Bulgaro-Serbes et la Question Macédonienne

Author(s): Nikola S. Deržavin / Language(s): French

The Macedonian question arose on the day when European diplomacy at the Congress of Berlin (1878) replaced Macedonia under the authority of the Sultan, which, by the Treaty of San Stefano, was included in the Bulgarian state. Since then much has been written on this question and on the dispute between Bulgarians and Serbs, the former wanting to maintain their national unity in the cultural field and pursuing the achievement of political unity and the Serbs seeking to expand at the expense of their neighbors from the east. (introduction by the translator)

La Macédoine et les réformes

Author(s): Petr D. Draganov / Language(s): French

Published in 1906 by Librairie Plon in Paris. // Authors preface: "This is the full story of Macedonia and the reforms over the past ten years: on the one hand, the suffering and heroic struggles of the Macedonian people; on the other hand, the desperate efforts of the Sultan to keep under the knife this people which his brothers of Bulgaria, Serbia, Rumania and Greece civilized by the schools, but which they are unable to deliver by arms, less for lack of a military power, which would induce the end of the Ottoman rule, than for lack of a diplomatic agreement, which would combine all the interests and all the efforts in the service of civilization and liberty."

Le Régime Serbe et la Lutte Révolutionnaire en Macédoine

Author(s): Kiril G. Părličev / Language(s): French

Published in 1917 by Pascalew Publisher in Sofia in the series „Bibliothèque des "Questions balkaniques", printed by the Royal Printing Press. // The author: A large number of scholars, travelers, geographers, ethnographers, historians and European publicists from both opposing camps have spoken out, during the last century and before the Balkan wars, on the ethnographic character of Macedonia. Almost all come to the conclusion that Macedonia is a country inhabited mainly by Bulgarians (in addition to Turks and Jews). The Ottoman Imperial Firman which sanctioned the restoration of the Bulgarian National Church, as well as international solemn acts, such as the Conference of Ambassadors in Constantinople, the Treaty of San Stefano and that of Berlin - confirmed this great truth. // Without dwelling on this question, we had to note this fact incidentally by exposing the factual situation, as it was under the Serbian regime and during the revolutionary struggle of the population in Macedonia during the period which embraces the end of the year 1912, when the Serbs had occupied the country, until the end of 1915, when the latter, having lost their former territory, had even had to abandon Macedonia. // Indeed, what did Macedonia represent when the Serbs, albeit for a period of three years, were the masters in this country?

ПЕТНАДЕСЕТЪ ГОДИНИ БАЛКАНСКА ИСТОРИЯ (1904-1918)

Author(s): Léon Lamouche / Language(s): Bulgarian

essential to expose, with some details, the question of Macedonia which is, in a way, the central point at the same time as the origin, of the events that I will have to relate, to show the development of this question in the XIXth century as well as the situation of the Macedonian region when the Powers, on the initiative of Russia and Austria, decided to send their representatives there. (The author has been Honorary Consul General of Bulgaria, former member of the French section of the International Mission for the Reorganization of the Ottoman Gendarmerie). BULGARIAN EDITION ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1930 by the NATIONAL MACEDONIAN COMMITTEE, SOFIA

Le Balkan Slave et la Crise autrichienne

Author(s): Charles Loiseau / Language(s): French

This book was begun when public attention, held for more than a year by the affairs of Armenia, Crete and the Greco-Turkish conflict, was suddenly brought back to the Austrian crisis. Its object being to present, not only the Serbs, the Montenegrins and the Bulgarians, but all the South Slavic race, spread from the Black Sea to Trieste, to the state of entity, of ethnic individuality, if the we can say, finally, one by origin, tendencies, interests and international function, - we can well admit that because of certain folds of the Western spirit it seemed to us several times of a difficult realization. On the one hand, it was necessary to insist on the ethnographic data and to put forward one of those theories of “nationalities” which fascinated the generation of 1848, even that of 1860, but are now considered outdated. On the other hand, it was necessary to break with certain usual classifications, which are above all inspired by the outline of the political border: we are used to considering that the "Balkan" begins at the precise point where the Empire ends. of the Habsburgs, and no more solidarity is admitted between these two worlds than between the so-called "Austrian" questions and the Eastern question. (From the author’s introduction) ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN1898 BY PERRIN ET CIE, LIBRAIRES-ÉDITEURS, PARIS

HAMSIBEG. Ein Roman aus den Gebirgswildnissen der Balkanhalbinsel.

Author(s): Hans Kadich von Pferd / Language(s): German

A novel, published in 1903 and based on several years of travels through the Western Balkans Region. The digitized print-original has been printed in German Fraktura font. Please edit the Introduction.pdf to make sure whether you'll be able to read the text.

Les Événements politiques en Bulgarie depuis 1876 jusqu’a nos Jours (=1896)

Author(s): Antoine Georgiev Drandar / Language(s): French

In 1876, an insurrection broke out in several places in Bulgaria which was stifled in islands of blood by irregular Turkish troops, later joined by those of the line. The repression was abominable, it excited general indignation in Europe. // In the meantime, the Serbian army crossed the frontier to pacify, so says the manifesto of King Milan, the insurgent provinces. The vanquished Serbian troops left the road to the heart of Serbia open to the Turks. Alexander II ordered by a telegram, dated Livadia, the suspension of hostilities before forty-eight hours. He threatened, if his order was not obeyed, to break off diplomatic relations immediately. The Turks stopped. … On December 11, 1876, the delegates of the five great powers, with the exception of Turkey, met in Constantinople, in a preliminary session, in order to work out the program of proposals which were to be presented to the Porte by a Conference meeting to agree on the conditions of peace to be dictated to Turkey on one side, to Serbia and Montenegro on the other.

La Bulgarie Contemporaine. Édition officielle du Ministère Belgique du Commerce et de l’Agriculture

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): French

Bulgaria can be proud today of the results achieved. The perseverance in the path of progress has been crowned with success. The organization is now complete. In all branches of public life order has been introduced. The spirit of organization that all historians, and in particular the Slavic historian Irecêk, have noticed in the ancient Bulgarian people has revealed itself again. … We must recall here the great part it has just taken at the International Exhibition of Liège, where one can note in a way, so to speak, palpably, the progress made by it in all branches of the economy. national. This book is precisely intended, in the mind of its authors, to complete the knowledge of Bulgaria that those who have visited its Pavilion at the Exhibition have been able to acquire. It can be read with interest by all those who wish to know our country. (from the Introduction)

Чешката и словашката следа в България

Author(s): Ivana Srbková / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2023

Book review

Периодика 2024

Author(s): Emiliya Voleva,Youliana Strashniuk / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 49/2024

Content of the main Bulgarian scientific journals for the current year in linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography, archaeology and art studies.