Vesselin Dimitrov - Stalins Cold War: Soviet Foreign Policy, Democracy and Communism in Bulgaria, 1941- 48 (Global Conflict and Security Since 1945)

Vesselin Dimitrov

Vesselin Dimitrov 2008

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Dimitrov, Vesselin, 1974 Stalins cold war : Soviet foreign policy, democracy and communism in Bulgaria, 19411948 / Vesselin Dimitrov.

p. cm.(Global conflict since 1945) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 023052138X (alk. paper)

1. Soviet Union Foreign relations 19171945. 2. Soviet Union Foreign relations 19451991. 3. Bulgaria Politics and government 19441990. 4. Political parties Bulgaria History 20th century.

5. Communism Bulgaria. 6. Dimitrov, Georgi, 18821949. 7. Western countries Foreign relations Soviet Union. 8. Soviet Union Foreign relations Western countries. 9. Cold War. I. Title.

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In the course of writing this work, I have accumulated numerous debts, of which unfortunately I am able to acknowledge only the most impor tant. I would like, first of all, to thank Jonathan Haslam, who supervised my doctoral thesis at the University of Cambridge, from which this book grew, for his inspiration and encouragement. I would also like to express my gratitude to Richard Crampton, University of Oxford, and Orlando Figes, then at the University of Cambridge and subsequently at Birkbeck College, University of London, who acted as examiners of the thesis and offered valuable and generous advice. I am grateful to Neil McKendrick, the Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and the Fellows of the College, who offered me a Research Fellowship based on the thesis, which I was regretfully unable to take up because of my appointment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. I would like to extend my gratitude to my colleagues in the Government Department at the London School of Economics, with whom it has been a genuine pleasure to work for more than eleven years. I would especially like to mention Dominic Lieven and Sebastian Balfour, whose kindness, wisdom and friendship I value most highly. I would also like to thank Anita Prazmowska of the Department of International History at the London School of Economics, for her generous advice and support.