The Making of a Nation in the Balkans / / Roumen Daskalov.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
• VerfasserIn: Daskalov, Roumen,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (290 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Preface --; Introduction. From Metaphor toward Historical Epoch --; Chapter One. Meanings of the Revival I: National and Cultural --; Chapter Two. Meanings of the Revival II: Economic and Social --; Excursus on Periodization --; Chapter Three. Classes and Class Struggles --; Chapter Four. Paths of the Revival and National Heroes --; Chapter Five. The April Uprising, the Russo-Turkish Liberation War, and the Revolution --; Chapter Six. The Continuing Revival: Symbolic Struggles and Images --; Epilogue. The Bulgarian Revival as a National Myth --; Glossary --; Transliteration --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9786155211171; 9783110780550
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Roumen Daskalov.

The nineteenth century was the epoch of nation building for the Bulgarians under Ottoman rule. In this book, comparisons and analogies are made between the Bulgarian Revival and other regions, epochs, ideological trends, and events. These latter are taken from two major areas—Western Europe ("Renaissance," "Enlightenment," "Romanticism," the French Revolution, and national liberation movements), and Russia (the "agrarian question," "populism" and "utopian socialism," "revolutionary democrats," and the Russian Revolution of 1905). Historical facts about the Revival were instrumentalized for political purposes, such as the fostering of national and state loyalties through the reproduction of identities, or, directly, as the legitimating/contesting of a current political regime under the guise of disputes over historical legacy. Ideological mobilization took place in the form of nationalism, right-wing authoritarianism (shading into fascism), and communism. The author sets in relief some of the mechanisms and logic of the two grand narratives under the sign of nationalism, and of Marxism.