Исторически преглед
Historical Review

Historical Review (Istoricheski Pregled - ISSN 0323-9748) has been published since 1945 in four issues annually. The magazine is processed at the Publishing Department of the Institute for Historical Studies – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The articles focus mainly on problems of political, social, economic and cultural history from the Classical Antiquity to the present days. Reviews and bibliographical surveys are published too. Foreign scholars participate side by side with researchers from Bulgarian academic institutes and universities. The papers are principally in Bulgarian with attached abstract in English. Colleagues from Bulgaria and from abroad take place in the Editorial Board of the double blind peer-reviewed magazine.

Editor-in-Chief:

Iliyana Marcheva

(Professor, PhD, Institute for Historical Studies - BAS, Bulgaria)

Areas of research: History of Bulgaria during the Cold War; History of the USSR / Russia; social and economic history of Bulgaria in the 20th and 21st centuries; historiography and memory policies; history of women and gender. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1301-4079

Scientific Secretaries:

Vladimir Zlatarski

(Assoc. Prof., PhD, Institute for Historical Studies - BAS, Bulgaria)

Areas of research: Bulgaria in Europe from the second half of the 19th century and in the 20th century; Bulgaria in the Balkan policy of Germany and Austria-Hungary, relations with the Balkan countries; history of the Balkans and Europe; military history. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6999-7628

Georgi Georgiev

(Assoc. Prof., PhD, Institute for Historical Studies - BAS, Bulgaria)

Areas of research: History of the Bulgarian national question; Macedonian question; national ideologies and movements in the Balkans; political and diplomatic history of Bulgaria in the 19th and 20th centuries; Bulgarian-Albanian relations; history of the Balkans and Europe; military history. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5237-6112. E-mail: georgi_georgiev.1971@abv.bg

Members:

Simeon Evstatiev

(Professor, PhD, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria)

Areas of research: political, social, and intellectual tensions arising from questions of religious identity; Salafism in Islamic history, theology and law; historical Islamic revivalism and contemporary Islamist movements; religious identities and boundaries in the Middle East and the Balkans; religious norm vs social practice; religion and politics, modern social theory and anthropological approaches to Islam. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3047-6723

Svetlana Ivanova

(Assoc. Prof., PhD, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria)

Areas of research: History of Bulgaria in the 15th - first half of the 19th century; social and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire and the Balkans; historical demography; ethno-religious relations in the Balkans; source studies and historiography; documentary and archival science; Ottoman-Turkish diplomacy and paleography. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3461-3273

Rumyana Chukova

(Assoc. Prof., Ph.D., Institute for Historical Studies - BAS, Bulgaria)

Areas of research: contemporary History, international Relations and geopolitics (20th-21st Century); history of Bulgaria; history of Central Asia; nation and nationalism; history of Holocaust. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2345-8693

Elena Kostova

(Assoc. Prof., PhD, Institute for Historical Studies - BAS, Bulgaria)

Areas of research: Mediaeval History of Bulgaria; Byzantium and the Balkans during the Middle Ages, mediaeval town in the Balkans; economic relations and trade in the Balkans (late 12th c. to 15th c.)

INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL TEAM

Dale F. Eickelman (Research Professor of Anthropology, Dartmouth College, United States). Research fields: anthropological theory and complex societies; the anthropology of Islam and the Middle East; political authority, legitimacy and power; religions and politics in the Middle East and Central Asia; higher education in the Arab world. ScAuthor ID 6506787423.

Frank-Lothar Kroll (Prof., PhD, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany). Research fields: european history in the 19th and 20th centuries; comparative history of european monarchies and dynasties; history of national socialism and the resistance against it; regional history of the german states. ScAuthorID 37095601900.

Gábor Demeter (PhD in history, PhD in Earth Sciences, Senior research fellow, Associate Professor at the Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of History – Hungary). Research fields: diplomatic history of the Balkans (1878–1914), diplomatic history of Austria-Hungary (1867–1914); socio-economic history of the Balkans; historical geography and socio-economic history of Austria-Hungary (18– 19th century); Mapping, GIS, cliometry.

Günter Prinzing (Prof. Emerit., PhD, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany), Research fields: history of Byzantium and the relations between Byzantium and Southeast Europe, respectively East Central Europe; history of the church and history of literature; Slavic studies. ScAuthorID 38761876800

Iskra Schwarcz (Prof., PhD, University of Vienna, Institute for East European History, Austria). Research fields: Russian and Bulgarian history, the history of diplomacy in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period, Peter the Great and his time, culture of remembrance. ORCID: 0000-0003-3223-5894, ScAuthorID 57203182975

Maria Todorova (Prof., PhD, Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA). Research fields: history of Eastern Europe, in particular the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire in the modern period; social and cultural history, historical demography, historiography and gender studies. ScAuthorID 14036376200

Michail Stanchev (Prof. DSc, Faculty of History, Kharkiv University Karazin, Ukraine). Research fields: history of Bulgarian-Ukrainian cultural, scientific and political relations; history of Bulgarians in Ukraine; the Bulgarians in the Russian Empire, in the USSR and in the post-Soviet space. ORCID: 0000-0002-2034-5087, ScAuthorID 57214996059

Tatyana Volokitina (Prof., DSc, Institute of Slavic Studies of the RAN, Russia). Research fields: Eastern Europe after the Second World War: the role of the Soviet factor in the history of the region; the model of “people's democracy”; history of Eastern European social democracy; relations church – state in the region; social and political development of Bulgaria in the second half of the 20th century. ResearcherID AAU-7238-2021, ORCID: 0000-0002-4239-017X, ScAuthorID 6507668081