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Bulgaria during the Second World War
Marshall Lee Miller
Stanford University Press Stanford, California 1975
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Bulgaria during the Second World War
Marshall Lee Miller
Stanford University Press Stanford, California 1975
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Historical Introduction (The Bitter Heritage - Politics and Parties During the Interwar Period - Foreign Policy)
1. The Outbreak of the War (Soviet Overtures to Bulgaria - The BKP After the Nazi-Soviet Pact - The Elections of 1939-40 - The Waning of Neutrality)
2. The Dobruja Crisis (The Problems of Territorial Revision - The Craiova Agreement and the Bulgarian Reaction)
3. Competition for the Balkans (The Sobolev Offer - The Italian Invasion of Greece - Leaning Toward the Axis - Communist Reaction to the New Policy - Allied Diplomatic Efforts - The Bulgarian-Turkish Pact)
4. Bulgaria Joins the Axis (The Soviet Protest - The British Break Diplomatic Relations - Developments in Yugoslavia)
5. Operation Marita (The Bulgarian Entry into Macedonia)
6. From Barbarossa to Pearl Harbor (The Failure of Clandestine Communist Activities - New German Pressures - Uncertainty About Turkey - Pearl Harbor and Its Significance)
7. Parries and Parleys (Continuing Bulgarian-Soviet Ties - The Nationalist Opposition - Hitler and Tsar Boris - Turkey and the German Plans - The Zaimov Affair)
8. No Friends, Just Foes (The Continuing Deterioration of Bulgarian-Soviet Relations - Fear of an Allied Invasion - Internal Developments)
9. The Jewish Question (Legislation Against the Jews - The Dannecker-Belev Agreement - The Kyustendil Incident - The Sparing of the Jews)
10. The Allied Threat (The Allied Conditions for Peace - The Threat of an Allied Invasion - The Murder of General Lukov)
11. The Bulgarian Occupation of Macedonia (The Occupation of Vardar Macedonia - IMRO and Ivan Mihailov - The Occupation of Aegean Macedonia - The Conflict Between the Yugoslav and the Bulgarian Communists)
12. The Death of Tsar Boris (Rumors and Suspicions - Theories About the Return from Rastenburg - The German Reaction to the Tsar’s Death - A Possible Solution)
III. SEPTEMBER 1943-SEPTEMBER 1944
13. The Regency and Bozhilov (The Formation of the Regency - The Aegean Campaign - The Fatherland Front)
14. Bombs and Peace Feelers (The Allied Bombing of Bulgaria - Peace Feelers)
15. The Bagryanov Government (Bagryanov and His Cabinet - Negotiations with the Allies - The Soviet Union and Turkey - The Change in Policy Stalled - The Results of Rumania’s Defection - Moscow’s Double Game - Negotiations with the Fatherland Front)
16. The Partisans (The Failure of the Resistance Movement in 1941 - The 1943 Partisan Revival - British Assistance to the Partisans)
17. The Last Phase (The Formation of a New Government - Muraviev’s Initial Actions - Clashes with the Germans - The Soviet Declaration of War - Communist Strides and Demonstrations - The Coup of September 9, 1944)
