ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TRANSLITERATION TABLE OF BULGARIAN CYRILLIC LIST OF TABLES INTRODUCTION 1. OUTLINING THE PROBLEM • THE OBJECTIVES OF THE RESEARCH • POPULATION AND POPULATION ANXIETIES FROM A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 2. METHODOLOGY • APPROACHES: THE ‘REGENERATED’ NARRATIVE • AGENTS OF RESEARCH AND LIMITATIONS OF THE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY • INSTRUMENTS OF RESEARCH • GENERAL LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY • SOURCES Parliamentary minutes and parliamentary appendixes Archival units Mass media: newspapers and magazines Independent publications 3. A HISTORICAL OUTLINE OF THE PERIOD UNDER INVESTIGATION • THE PATH TO NEUILLY (1919) • IDEOLOGICAL DEFINITIONS OF THE ERA 4. SOCIAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE OF INTERWAR BULGARIA 5. A HISTORY OF BULGARIAN LEGISLATION – AN OUTLINE PART I: REVITALISING A DEFEATED NATION CHAPTER 1: BUILDING-UP A MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTHCARE 1. AN ‘ORANGE’ START: THE BANU’S BILL FOR PEOPLE’S HEALTH (1923) • AN ‘ORANGE’ IDEOLOGY OF HEALTHCARE • NON-CODIFIED PROVISIONS FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTHCARE 2. THE DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE AND THE 1929 LAW FOR PEOPLE’S HEALTH • LEGISLATIVE INTRODUCTION OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE IN BULGARIA • THE 1929 LAW FOR PEOPLE’S HEALTH AND ITS HISTORICAL LEGACY • ‘THE WAY THEY SAW IT’: THE PROBLEM OF ‘WISHFUL’ SOCIAL HYGIENE • CONTRADICTIONS BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE 3. FERTILITY DECREASE AND THE REDISCOVERY OF STATE WELFARE • THE FAILURE OF THE PROPAGANDA APPROACH • THE LEGAL REVERSAL CHAPTER 2: PUBLIC ASSISTANCE 1. STATE PROTECTION OF THE FAMILY: THE PRIVILEGED CHILD • THE 1934 DECREE-LAW FOR PUBLIC ASSISTANCE AND ITS LEGISLATIVE AFTERMATH 2. LEGISLATION ON FAMILY ALLOWANCES IN BULGARIA • INTRODUCING FAMILY ALLOWANCES IN BULGARIA - A HISTORICAL OUTLINE • THE POLITICAL CONTEXT OF DISCOURSE • THE DECREE FOR FAMILY ALLOWANCES (1942) • BINDING SOCIAL WELFARE AND PUBLIC SECURITY 3. THE DISADVANTAGED CHILD: THE LAW FOR CHILDREN BORN OUTSIDE MARRIAGE AND THEIR AVOWAL, AND FOR ADOPTION, NOVEMBER 1940 • EARLY LEGAL DEBATES AND MODERNISATION • IN THE NAME OF THE CHILD AND ITS MOTHER, AND … SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS • MOTHERS’ RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S ISSUES • REFORM BILLS (1924–33) • ILLEGITIMACY AND MEDIA RESPONSE • THE LEGAL BREAKTHROUGH (NOVEMBER 1940) PART II: TOWARDS PRONATALISM CHAPTER 3: DEMOGRAPHY, MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS AND PARLIAMENTARY DISCOURSE 1. THE ‘DISCOVERY’ OF BIRTH DECLINE 2. DEMOGRAPHERS ON THE ‘COLLAPSING’ DEMOGRAPHIC TREND 3. MASS MEDIA RESPONSES TO FERTILITY DECLINE • ETHNIC IMBALANCE AND MILITARY ALARM • POPULATION GROWTH OR POVERTY CONCERNS? • THE IMAGE OF THE ‘NEW’ FAMILY 4. EARLY PARLIAMENTARY ALARM ABOUT BIRTH DECLINE CHAPTER 4: ACTIVITIES ‘FROM BELOW’: THE LEAGUE OF LARGE, MNOGODETNI, FAMILIES 1. HISTORICAL OVERVIEW 2. ORGANISATION • NETWORKS AND NETWORK ACTIVITIES • CONGRESSES AND SYMBOLISM • MANAGEMENT AND MEMBERSHIP • ROLE MODELS 3. COMBATING POVERTY • CHILD ALLOWANCES, TAX-REVISIONS AND RAILWAY FARE DISCOUNTS • APPEALS FOR LAND REDISTRIBUTION AND JUSTICE CHAPTER 5: PETUR GABROVSKI AND THE LAW FOR LARGE, MNOGODETNI, BULGARIAN FAMILIES 1. IDEOLOGICAL BACKGROUND 2. THE LAW FOR LARGE, MNOGODETNI BULGARIAN FAMILIES • LEGISLATIVE PREPARATIONS • INFLUENCES AND MOTIVATION • DRAFTS AND COMMENTS • OFFICIAL ADMINISTRATIVE CONSIDERATIONS • THE FINAL VERSION 3. THE BACHELOR’S TAX CONTROVERSY 4. THE LEGAL AFTERMATH CONCLUSIONS • LEGISLATION ON THE FAMILY AND CHILDREN (1918-44) • AN OVERVIEW OF MOTIVES – ‘THE WAY THEY SAW IT’ • PRIVILEGED AND UNDERPRIVILEGED TARGET GROUPS OF SOCIAL LEGISLATION • POLITICAL PARTICIPANTS AND PRESSURE ACTIVISTS • AFTERMATH