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Since the Second World War, Bulgaria has been little known to the outside world. This survey of its history from its liberation from the Ottoman Empire in 1878 to 1985 offers an understanding of the country's present position and the recent past that has shaped it. Dr Crampton begins with a short introduction covering the period of Ottoman rule and then examines the political evolution of the new state. In 1915 the ruler, 'Foxy Ferdinard', chose to join the Germans in the First World War. During the 1920s and early 1930s Bulgaria suffered from political violence, though in the second half of the 1930s stability returned under the strong but not dictatorial rule of King Boris. In 1940 Bulgaria's leaders again chose the wrong side in the Second World War and violence returned as the Communists plotted a bloody path to power. From the mid-1950s the dictatorial rule of Todor Zhivkov ensured stability and, though grave problems remained, the rise in living standards was a considerable achievement.
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Dustin Crafton
reviewed A Short History of Modern Bulgaria - R. J. Crampton - Paperback on May 04, 2016
A Short History of Modern Bulgaria - R. J. Crampton - Paperback
Not a narrative history, but chapters covering all the key events, people and issues of the period. The first 100 pages were tough going since the reader gets in those 100 pages to read about the flu epidemic, strike breaking, Sacco and Vanzetti, and the Ku Klux Klan. Not happy going. His twenties seemed to me darker one that the stereotype.
It is truly amazing all of the things that happened during the twenties. Just some: Margaret Sanger's crusade for the legalization of birth control, prohibition, women's suffrage, Lindbergh's flight, the Scopes trial, and the founding of Reader's Digest and Time Magazine as well as the Book of the Month Club and the Literary Guild. Perrett covers the rising popularity of sports both professional and college. He makes an interesting case for a connection between rising car ownership and the financial crisis. Cars were the first consumer goods (besides homes) that were available on credit. Once the taboo on borrowing was breached, the middle class proceeded to get themselves in hock buying items for which credit was now available--refrigerators, etc. The problem was that purchases like these, unlike purchases like food and clothes, soon saturate the market. Once everyone has a car and a refrigerator, etc., sales drop precipitously as they will not need to be replaced for quite a while. I don't know enough about the economics of the depression to judge its truth but it is an interesting argument.
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