“Народът” в българския печат и политика през 80-те и 90-те години на 19 век
‘The People’ in the Bulgarian Press and Politics in the 1880s and 1890s

Summary/Abstract: The rhetoric born of the French Revolution and the new concepts of popular sovereignty, public opinion and the rights of the people played an important role in the formation of modern Bulgarian political culture. The purpose of this text is to trace the ways in which the power-holders in the Principality of Bulgaria strove to legitimate their power through ‘the people’ in the 1880s and 1890s. It will try to describe the struggle in the public political sphere as a contest for the right to interpret and represent the ‘will of the people’. The different uses, senses and meanings of the term ‘people’ in the Bulgarian public political sphere in the period under review will be sought and revealed.

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