Паисий и десният митонационализъм между двете световни войни. Списание „Отец Паисий“
Paissius of Hilendar and Right-Wing Nationalism between the Two World Wars. "Otets Paisiy" Magazine

Summary/Abstract: In this article, I delve into Otets Paisiy magazine (1928-1943), an organisation of the right-wing patriotic All-Bulgarian union ‘Otets Paisiy’. I aim to reveal how the image of the Hilendar monk was formed as a symbol at a time of crisis of nationalism. The main question is why it was Paisius of Hilendar who was chosen as the symbol of Bulgarian revisionism after the Treaty of Neuilly. The subject of the analysis are texts by Spiridon Kazandzhiev and Boris Yotsov as they express different visions of historical perspective, rethinking the history-life relationship, and ultimately getting over major principles of the ‘philosophy of life’, still modern between the two world wars. Finally, I trace the institutionalisation of the celebration of Paisius in Bulgarian culture in the context of the symbol crisis in the 1930s.

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