Research - Projects

Some of the More Important Projects which have been developed in the Institute over the Last Years

Russia between the East and the West. Term 2006-2008. Supervisor: L. Revyakina, Prof. DSc.

Bulgarian-English Cultural Societies and Organization between the Two World Wars.  Term 2006-2008. Project Executor: A. Velichkov, Assoc. Prof., PhD.

Exarchic Statistical Data for the Bulgarians in Macedonia and Edirne Thrace (1878-1944). Term 2006-2008. Project Executor: St. Stoycheva, Ph. D.

The Bulgarian Exarchate 1870-1945. Term 2005-2007. Project Executor: L. Liubenova, Assoc.Professor, PhD.

Genealogy and Regional Studies – Problems of Methodological Integration. Term 2005-2007. Supervisor: A. Zpryanova, Assoc. Professor, PhD.

Problems of the Historical Continuity. History and Politics. Term 2004-2007. Project Executor: A. Dimitrov, Assoc. Professor, PhD.

History of Bulgaria, Vol. IX. Bulgaria until the End of the Second World War. Term 2002-2007. Supervisor: G. Markov, Member of Correspondence, Prof. DSc.

Bulgaria on its Way to Europe. Term 2004-2006. Supervisor: V. Miggev, Prof. DSc.

Bulgarian National Cause – Society, Politics, Culture, Liberation Movement (1878-1948). Term 2004-2006. Supervisor: R. Manafova, Prof. DSc.

The Bulgarians Near and Far Abroad between the Two World Wars. Social and Spiritual Life of Bulgarian Communities in Argentina and Turkey. Term 2004-2006. Supervisor: K. Gardev, Assoc. Professor, PhD.

Contact Zones between Bulgaria and Hungary along the Danube River in the 18th-19th Centuries. Term 2003-2006. Supervisor: G. Markov, Member of Correspondence, Prof. DSc.

Bulgaria on the Road to Modernisation, 1878-1944. Term 2003-2006. Supervisor: E. Statelova, Prof. DSc.

In Honour of Professor Nikolay Zhechev. A Collection of Studies. Term 2003-2006. Supervisor: St. Doynov, Prof. DSc.

Bulgarian University Students in Germany. Term 2006. Participant: G. Nikova, Assoc. Professor, PhD.

In Honour of Professor Virginia Paskaleva. A Collection of Studies. Term 2002-2005. Supervisor: Academician K. Kossev.

The Vatican, the Catholic World and Bulgarians. No Deadline. Supervisor: Ek. Vecheva, Assoc. Professor, PhD.

The Oral History and Antropology. Term 2002 - continues. Participant: R. Parvanova, Senior Research Associate, PhD.

Tsar Boris III in British Diplomatic Documents. Collection of Documents in Three Volumes. 1918-1941. Term 2001-2004. Extended. Project Executor: D. Mitev, Senior Research Associate, PhD.

Moravian Uprising in Serbia from March-April 1917. Term 2001-2004. Extended. Project Executor: M. Kumanov, Assoc. Professor, PhD.

Almanac of the Bulgarian National Liberation Movement. Term 2004-2005. Supervisor: G. Markov, Prof. DSc.

“Historians about History”: A Questionnaire Study. Term 2004-2005. Supervisor: A. Zapryanova, Assoc. Professor, PhD.

The Necessary East. Term 2002-2005. Supervisor: T. Stiolova, Assoc. Professor, PhD.

Russian Emigration in the Balkans. Term 2002-2005. Participant: L. Liubenova, Senior Scientific Fellow, Associate Professor, Ph. D.

State and Church in the Balkans in the 11th–12th Centuries. Term 2001-2005. Supervisor: I. Iliev, Assoc. Professor, PhD.

The Comintern and Bulgaria. Term 2005. Supervisor: L. Revyakina, Assoc. Professor, DSc.

Bulgaria in the Second Half of the 20th Century. Term 2003-2004. Supervisor: R. Todorova, Assoc. Professor, PhD.

Genealogy in the Modern World. Term 2002-2004. Supervisor: A. Zapryanova, Assoc. Professor, PhD.

Bulgarian Literature in the Fourteenth Century. Term 2001-2004. Supervisor: Ivan Bozhilov, Prof. DSc.

Jubilee Edition of the Eightieth Anniversary of the Birth of Professor Krumka Sharova. Term 2001-2004. Supervisor: O. Mazhdrakova, Assoc. Professor, PhD.

In Honour of Professor Doyno Doynov. Term 2001-2004. Supervisor: R. Radkova. Prof. DSc.

Bulgarians’ History. Term 2001-2004. Supervisor: G. Markov, Member of Correspondence, Prof. DSc.

The Black Sea in the Historical Fate of South-Eastern Europe and Front Asia. Term 2001-2004. Supervisor: V. Tonev, Prof. DSc.

Collection in Commemoration of Radoslav Petkov.  Term 2001-2004. Supervisor: E. Statelova, Prof. DSc.

Emigration of the White Guard in Bulgaria. Term 2001-2004. Participant: L. Liubenova, Assoc. Professor, PhD.

Cominformbureau and Bulgaria 1947-1956. Term 2001-2004. Supervisor: V. Toshkova, Prof. DSc.

Aspects of the History of the Bulgarian Diaspora in the First Half of the 20th Century. Term 2001-2003. Supervisor: K. Gardev, Assoc. Professor, PhD.

Sociopolitical Cultural Dimensions of the Bulgarian National Question after 1878. Term 2001-2003. Supervisor: R. Manafova, Prof. DSc.

Bulgarian Society in the 15th-18th Centuries. Hidden Contrasts and Conflicts. Term 2000-2003. Supervisor: E. Grozdanova, Prof, DSc.

History of Bulgaria’s External Debt 1878-1994. Term 2000-2003. Supervisor: M. Ivanov, Senior Research Associate, PhD.

Common and Specific Features of Bulgaria and Romania’s Political Development in the Period 1940-1965. Term 2000-2003. Participant: P. Kishkilova, Assoc. Professor, PhD.

Project Turk (Ankara). Term 2002. Participants: V. Stoyanov, Assoc. Professor, PhD., S. Georgieva, Senior Research Associate, PhD.

Information Technologies in History and its Sciences. Term 1999-2002. Supervisor: A. Zapryanova, Assoc. Professor PhD.

Donatorship in Bulgaria 1878-1951. Term 1998-2002. Supervisor: V. Nikolova, Assoc. Professor PhD.

Studia in Honorem Professoris Verae Mutafčievae. Term 2000-2001. Participant: V. Stoyanov, Assoc. Professor PhD.

Bulgarian Democracy, 1878-1944. Economy, Politics and Culture. Term 1999-2001. Supervisor: E. Statelova, Prof. DSc.

Gesellschaft und Konfession in Südosteuropa 1989-1997 (Wien). Term 1995-2000. Participant: V. Stoyanov, Assoc. Professor PhD.

Prosopography of Medieval Bulgaria. Term 2000 - Supervisor: I. Bozhilov, Prof. DSc.

Who is Who among the Bulgarians in the 15th-19th Centuries. Term 1998-2000. Supervisor: I. Todev, Assoc. Professor PhD.

Far away from the Motherland. Term 1997-2000. Supervisor: R. Radkova, Prof. DSc.

Bulgarians in European Educational Institutions 1892-1912. Term 1995-2000. Project Executor: I. Tanchev, Assoc. Professor PhD.

The Liberal Coalition in Power and the Opposition 1913-1918. Term 1995-2000. Project Executor: P. Kishkilova, Assoc. Professor PhD.

Stalinism in Eastern Europe after the Second World War. Term 1998-1999. Supervisor: S. Pintev, Assoc. Professor PhD.

Khrushchev and Bulgaria, 1953-1964. Term 1997-1999. Supervisor: G. Nikova, Assoc. Professor PhD.

Bulgaria in a Divided Europe. Term 1997-1999. Supervisor: S. Pintev, Assoc. Professor PhD.

Fifty Years since the Establishment of the Institute of History. BioBibliography. Term 1997-1999. Supervisor: V. Stoyanov, Assoc. Professor PhD.

Bulgarian Intelligentsia in the 1930s and 1940s. Term 1995-1999. Project Executor: D. Ludzhev, Assoc. Professor PhD.

Ministerial Responsibility in Bulgaria – 1879-1924. Term 1995-1999. Project Executor: Y. Gesheva, Assoc. Professor PhD.

Search and Study of Archive Documents, Materials, Periodicals and Other Publications of Bulgarian Political Emigration – 1944-1989. Term 1997-1998. Supervisor: E. Statelova, Prof. DSc.

Bulgarian Society after the Second World War. Term 1997-1998. Supervisor: G. Nikova, Assoc. Professor PhD.

Sovietization of GDR and Eastern Europe. Term 1997-1998. Participant: G. Nikova, Assoc. Professor PhD.

The Comintern, Cominformbureau and Bulgaria. Term 1997. Supervisor: V. Toshkova, Prof. DSc.

The Soviet Factor in Bulgaria’s Development after September 9, 1944. Term 1997. Supervisor: V. Toshkova, Prof. DSc.

Religion and Church in Bulgaria. Term 1997. Supervisor: R. Radkova, Prof. DSc.

Tradition and Innovation in the Economic Development of Bulgaria, 1879-1944. Term 1996-1997.

Jews in Bulgarian Medicine. Term 1995-1997. Supervisor: B. Vassileva, Assoc. Professor PhD.

Foreign Policy of Stefan Stambolov’s Cabinet. Term 1993-1997. Project Executor: R. Popov, Prof. DSc.

Metropolitan Simeon of Varna and Preslav as a Priest, Politician and a Cultural Figure. Term 1993-1997. Project Executor: L. Liubenova, Assoc. Professor PhD.

Bulgarian Citizens’ Rights and Freedoms under the Conditions of Stambolov’ Regime (1887-1894). Term 1993-1997. Project Executor: V. Tankova, Assoc. Professor PhD.

Bulgarian State Organization in the 19th Century in the Political Context of the Balkans. Term 1993-1997. Project Executor: St. Grancharov, Assoc. Professor PhD.

The Democratic Party 1924-1931. Term 1992-1997. Project Executor: V. Nikolova, Assoc. Professor PhD.

Germany trough the Eyes of its Bulgarian Alumni.  Term 1992-1996. Project Executor: R. Koneva, Senior Research Associate, PhD.

The Regime of the Democratic Entente (4 January 1926 – 29 April 1931). Term 1991-1996. Project Executor: R. Parvanova, Senior Research Associate, PhD.