Humanities

THE KOLYMA TALES
Author: VARLAM SHALAMOV
Sofia, 2010, Communitas Foundation
The book includes stories from different books written by Varlam Shalamov. The author hardly needs presenting, but here are some lines from the book’s introduction: "The book written by Varlam Shalamov does not contain sermons or accusations. They are irrelevant because “The Kolyma Tales” are not written from the standing point of someone who observes or reminds oneself the world of the prison camps, but from the standing point of someone who experiences this world in this very moment. » more

THREE FACES OF TYRANNY
Author: EVGENII DAINOV
Sofia, 2008, Communitas Foundation
The spread of the democracy all over the world means more and more people incorporated in the civilization and the creation of suitable conditions for more people to be happy (if they want to, of course). In the decade after the collapse of communism, the disintegration of the USSR, and after the Cold War, this is what was appearing to be happening. However, since the beginning of the 21st century this afflux has turned into a reflux. » more

COMMUNAL CAPITALISM, vol. I,II,III
Author: RUMEN AVRAMOV
Sofia, 2007, co-publication of Communitas Foundation and the Center for Liberal Strategies
The book is a journey through the economic culture of the first Bulgarian capitalism, which formed between the Liberation and the beginning of the 1940s. Marked by the communism and the following opening towards the world, this culture continues to be reborn in today’s economic forms. The whimsical links between yesterday and today, revealed throughout the text, lead to long-standing, resilient roots of the communal (etatist, clan, or collectivistic) principles, which has never stopped undermining the full-blooded competition in the economy and constructing a "panel" existence. » more

LAND UNDER FIRE, vol.I,II,III,IV,V
Author: SVOBODA BACHVAROVA
Sofia, 2006, Bulgarian Science and Culture Foundation
Svoboda Bachvarova’s pentalogy Land under Fire is a marvelous and erudite story about the wealthiest people in Bulgaria in the first half of the 20th century. Can you stand against the machine of war and power with the “golden bridges” created by money? What does a lot of money give you – a lot of power and authority, or a lot of responsibility? The brilliant story telling talent of Svoboda Bachvarova puts you through as if “live” in the course of the events in which answers to the mentioned above questions are sought. » more

ROTHSCHILD. A STORY OF WEALTH AND POWER
Author: DEREK WILSON
Sofia, 2002, Bulgarian Science and Culture Foundation
The book presents the history of the Rothschild family from its origin till the second half of the 20th century. The research is based on a multitude of documents, personal meetings with representatives of the family, study of the family archives. The development of the Rothschild family is reviewed on the background of the European history, as part of it. » more

RURAL OCCASIONS. STORIES ABOUT DIFFERENT THINGS
Author: EVGENII DAINOV
Sofia, 2001, Bulgarian Science and Culture Foundation
The book contains short stories and it is an attempt of the famous Bulgarian political scientist in the field of fiction. With a very fresh view on those well known things from the surrounding of the ordinary man, and with a bright sense of humor, these short stories once again show the notion of the humanist on the life of the contemporary Bulgarian. » more

THE POLITICAL DEBATE AND THE TRANSITION IN BULGARIA
Author: EVGENII DAINOV
Sofia, 2000, Bulgarian Science and Culture Foundation
This book is product of a serious research of the social processes in the Bulgarian society that took place from 1989 till 1999. The author analyses the ways of disintegration of the socialist system and the creation of the democratic system of government in Bulgaria, while accentuating on the citizens’ participation in these processes. This analysis is based on a great number of a variety of sources – from studies of scholars adhering to different schools, to publications in the periodical press. » more

THE ONE WHO TRUSTED
Author: STEFAN BOCHEV
Sofia, 2000, Bulgarian Science and Culture Foundation
The novel presents the fate of a Bulgarian born in the first years of the 20th century who took part in some of the great events of the world history till the beginning of the Cold War. The author reproduces the European and world events brightly and authentically, in the way he saw them as a reporter of Open Society and as a Bulgarian diplomat in Rome, Stockholm and Bern. » more

BELENE. A STORY ABOUT THE CONCENTRATION CAMP BULGARIA
Author: STEFAN BOCHEV
Sofia, 1999, Bulgarian Science and Culture Foundation
Memories and thoughts about the times when "Belene" was a key word. A story about the concentration camps in Bulgaria in the 50s of the 20th century, but not a gloomy story of horror; rather it is a bright, filled with soft humor, subtle irony and love for life story about the man put to serious hardships. » more

COLD WAR IN THE BALKANS: AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY AND THE EMERGENCE OF COMMUNIST BULGARIA, 1943-1947
Author: MICHAEL BOLL
Sofia, 1999, Bulgarian Science and Culture Foundation
The book presents a new, in terms of the documents used in the research, point of view on the American foreign policy history during the World War II and immediately after it, its policy towards the Balkans and Bulgaria in particular. The author of the book – the American historian and diplomat Michael Boll, grounds his research on various documents from the archives of the USA and England, as well as on a number of documents published by the USA, England, Germany, the USSR and Bulgaria. » more

THE TRIPLE PORTRAIT OF MARIA-MAGDALINA
Author: STEFAN BOCHEV
Sofia, 1999, Bulgarian Science and Culture Foundation
The Triple Portrait of Maria-Magdalina is a portrait of one generation in socialist Bulgaria of the 60s. The characters are not fictional, but taken from real life. On the background of the realistic picture the author unfolds his view of love, good and the role of the art. » more

THE CAPITALISM IN BULGARIA
Author: STOYAN BOCHEV
Sofia, 1998, Bulgarian Science and Culture Foundation
In the collection The Capitalism in Bulgaria there are economical texts and personal memories of Stoyan Bochev, a keen philosopher who summarized the course of the Bulgarian economic reality and who caught the deep philosophy of its development. » more

WITH EYES ON THE TRUTHS OF THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY AND TODAY
Author: TRAYAN RADEV
Sofia, 1997, Bulgarian Science and Culture Foundation
The book is a collection of feature stories, written during different periods of the author’s life. These relatively short 35 texts are dedicated to different moments and to some notable figures of the Bulgarian history in the 19th and 20th centuries. » more

HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF THE POLITICAL DEMOCRACY
Author: ANDREY PANTEV
Sofia, 1997, Bulgarian Science and Culture Foundation
This is a book about the democracy before democracy. This repetition of words expresses a basic meaning specification. Its meaning reminds that the real modern democracy has a strikingly short history. Democracy is often identified with that peculiar liberal system of government and political life which is a preparatory stage for democracy, but is no democracy itself. » more

VIEWS ON LITERATURE AND ARTS, AND PERSONAL MEMORIES
Author: SIMEON RADEV
Sofia, 1996, Bulgarian Science and Culture Foundation
A collection of articles published by Simeon Radev in the Hudozhnik (Painter) magazine in the first decades of the 20th century. They present the famous Bulgarian publicist and historian as a literary critic. In the articles he analyses and evaluates the work of some Bulgarian and foreign writers. The articles about famous European painters are of great interest as well. » more