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Between the Past and the West: Bulgarian Post-Communist Left in Search of Legitimacy
Between the Past and the West: Bulgarian Post-Communist Left in Search of Legitimacy

Author(s): Boris Popivanov
Subject(s): History, Local History / Microhistory, Special Historiographies:, History of Communism
Published by: Zeta Books
Keywords: Bulgaria; Bulgarian Socialist Party; Communism; Communist Successor Parties; Post-Communist Nostalgia

Summary/Abstract: Communist successor parties in Central and Eastern Europe have adapted to the new realities according to a popular model differentiating between pragmatic reform and leftist retreat. The Bulgarian Socialist Party, which succeeded the ruling Communists, seems to diverge from this model, neither fully transforming into a Western European social democratic formation nor remaining a Communist one while keeping elements of both. The reasons behind this ambivalent position are examined according to the party’s orientation toward its own past in its three dimensions: program messages, voters’ attitudes and commemoration of Communist legacy.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 177-198
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: English