Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Preface; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations, and of the Names of Parties and Organizations Mentioned; The Bulgarian Governments During and After the Removal of Todor Zhivkov from Office; The Heads of State of Bulgaria During and After the Removal of Todor Zhivkov from Office; Introduction; 1. On Forgetfulness and Its Perils; 2. The State of Research on the 1989 Expulsion; 3.The 1989 Ethnic Cleansing Through the Lens of the International Press; 4. The Ethnic Cleansing’s Aftermath and the Regime Change; 5. The Official Coming to Terms with the 1989 Ethnic Cleansing; 6. Between Language and Millet; 7. The Question of Responsibility; Conclusion; Postscriptum; Bibliography; Index
Tomasz Kamusella is Reader in Modern History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His monographs include Silesia and Central European Nationalisms (2007), The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe (2009), Creating Languages in Central Europe During the Last Millennium (2015) and The Un-Polish Poland, 1989 and the Illusion of Regained Historical Continuity (2017). He also co-edited several volumes, for instance, Creating Nationality in Central Europe, 1880-1950 (2016), The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders (2016) and The Social and Political History of Southern Africa's Languages (2017).
"Kamusella shows the way for a future Bulgaria. The recognition of
ethnic cleansing is important not only in terms of historical
justice and responsibility but also for the future transformation
of Bulgaria into a country attractive for immigrants"
- Vasil Paraskevov, Konstantin Preslavsky University, Bulgaria,
European History Quarterly"Kamusella’s monograph invites readers to
take a trip back in time and experience the repressions of a
minority group’s ethnic, religious, and cultural identity as well
as the tragedy of displacement. It also demonstrates the level of
public acceptance, or rather non-acceptance, of the Turkish
minority in Bulgaria that continues up to this day and, ultimately,
questions the nationalist attitudes in the country, which are still
hostile to ethnic and religious minorities. In times of rising
populism, nationalism, and Islamophobia throughout Europe, the
questions addressed by Kamusella are currently of even greater
significance than they would be otherwise."-Slavka Karakusheva,
Comparative Southeast European Studies
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