Ethnic Cleansing During the Cold War
the forgotten 1989 expulsion of turks from communist bulgaria
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- Hardcover
274 pages
- Release Date
2 August 2018
Summary
In mid-1989, the Bulgarian communist regime seeking to prop up its legitimacy played the ethnonational card by expelling 360,000 Turks and Muslims across the Iron Curtain to neighboring Turkey. It was the single largest ethnic cleansing during the Cold War in Europe after the wrapping up of the postwar expulsions (‘population transfers’) of ethnic Germans from Central Europe in the latter half of the 1940s. Furthermore, this expulsion of Turks and Muslims from Bulgaria was the sole unilate…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781138480520 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1138480525 |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in Modern European History |
| Author: | Tomasz Kamusella |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 274 |
| Release Date: | 2 August 2018 |
| Weight: | 610g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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“Kamusella shows the way for a future Bulgaria. The recognition of ethnic cleansing is important not only in terms of historical justice and responsibility but also for the future transformation of Bulgaria into a country attractive for immigrants” - Vasil Paraskevov, Konstantin Preslavsky University, Bulgaria, European History Quarterly
About The Author
Tomasz Kamusella
Tomasz Kamusella is Reader in Modern History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His monographs include Silesia and Central European Nationalisms (2007), The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe (2009), Creating Languages in Central Europe During the Last Millennium (2015) and The Un-Polish Poland, 1989 and the Illusion of Regained Historical Continuity (2017). He also co-edited several volumes, for instance, Creating Nationality in Central Europe, 1880-1950 (2016), The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders (2016) and The Social and Political History of Southern Africa’s Languages (2017).
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