INTRODUCTORY WORDS CHAPTER 1: STAMBOLOV, THE RUSSOPHILES AND THE RUSSOPHOBES IN BULGARIA INITIAL INTERPRETATIONS OF THE STAMBOLOV EPOCH THE MARXIST HISTORIANS ON STAMBOLOV'S REGIME TOWARDS STAMBOLOV'S REHABILITATION AFTER THE FALL OF THE COMMUNIST REGIME CHAPTER 2: THE RULE OF THE BULGARIAN AGRARIAN NATIONAL UNION AND THE «WORKER-PEASANT ALLIANCE» THE ROAD TO POWER THE AGRARIAN RULE: IDEOLOGY AND REFORMS INTERPRETATION AND ASSESSMENTS ALEXANDUR STAMBOLIISKI THE AGRARIAN UNION AND THE «UNITY OF ACTION» WITH THE BULGARIAN COMMUNIST PARTY CHAPTER 3: THE DEBATE ON FASCISM AND THE ANTIFASCIST STRUGGLES THE LONG FASCISM AND THE BREACHES INTO IT “MONARCHO-FASCISM” BULGARIA AND HITLER’S GERMANY THE STRUGGLE ANGAINST FASCISM AND THE ANTIFASCISM AFTER COMMUNISM CHAPTER 4: SEPTEMBER NINTH, “POPULAR DEMOCRACY” AND SOCIALISM SEPTEMBER NINTH “POPULAR DEMOCRACY” (1944-1948) SOCIALISM IN PROGRESS AFTER SOCIALISM ABOUT IT: SEPTEMBER NINTH REVISITED THE POPULAR-DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION GEORGI DIMITROV THE MACEDONIAN QUESTION THE REPRESSIONS THE BULGARIAN TOTALITARIANISM THE “ERA ZHIVKOV” AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SYSTEM THE SOCIALIST MODERNIZATION ASPECTS OF THE SYSTEM CONCLUSION: ON OBJECTIVITY AND TRUTH IN THE BULGARIAN HISTORICAL SCHOLARSHIP