Vol. 100 No. 1 (2012): Annual of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" - Faculty of History
Vol. 100 of the GSU-IF contains articles and studies with a chronological range from the first millennium BC to our modern times; the materials are published in Bulgarian and English. P. Delev analyses a variety of sources and offers his own theses on a number of controversial points in the history of the Thracian tribe Besi. S. Ivanova published an article which deals with the peculiarities of the status of merchants in the Ottoman Empire in the XVII-XVIII centuries. V. Racheva clarifies the details of the emigration policy of Russia in the 1820s in the Balkans and towards the Bulgarians in connection with the Peace of Adrianople in 1829. D. Kontogeorgios promulgates two Greek documents from 1855, which bring into scholarly circulation new information about the life of the prominent Bulgarian revolutionary G. Rakovski and his Greek citizenship in 1843. Thematically related to the material of V. Racheva is the ethnological study of T. Boneva, devoted to two villages in Moldova, with extremely interesting observations and analysis tracing the history of the settlers from the establishment of the new settlements to the Soviet and post-Soviet times. Evg. Kalinova examines the Bulgarian intelligentsia and the communist regime in the period 1960-1963, outlining new trends in the social and cultural life of the country. I. Baeva defends the thesis of the return of the European constitutional tradition in the public life of Bulgaria after the changes of 1989.
