Documentary Collections
The published documents originate from the Imperial State Archive of the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. They contain substantial part of the secret correspondence between the Foreign Office in Vienna and the General Consulate and the Diplomatic Agency of the Dual Monarchy in Sofia in the period after establishing of Princedom of Bulgaria till the eve of its unification in 1885 with South Bulgaria (previously cut off from the rest of Bulgaria due to the Berlin Congress in 1878).
These documents provide a rich scientific information of imminent interest both for scientific historical investigation as well as for the general public. They reveal the basic doctrines and activities of the political strategy of Austria-Hungary and of the other great powers during the first half of the 80-ies in the 19-th century on the Balkans, in general, and in Bulgaria, in particular. This was a period when the great powers were competing for a dominant position in the European Southeast and West Asia regions. The emerging by that time of the so called "Bulgarian question" contributed to the further aggravation of the great power interrelations resulting in more and more dangerous phases in the succeeding each other oriental crises on the Egyptian, Afghan, Macedonian etc. "questions ".
The collected documents reveal the internal situation in the just re-united Bulgaria: the development of the state institutions, the social and economic life and the multi-party system. The documents present valuable material for a historical and sociological study of the social processes and trends in Bulgaria after her liberation in 1878.
The volume has been prepared in collaboration with the Institute for History of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Central Office of State Archives at the Council of Ministers of Republic of Bulgaria.
A large number of German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, English and French archive documents are collected for publication accompanied with scientific commentaries. The geopolitical interests and regional policy of the great powers in Southeast Europe during the 70-ies and 80-ies of the 19 century are documentary presented within the context of relations among the three empires - Austria-Hungary, Germany and Russia, and their impact on the complex internal and foreign political problems of the re-established Third Bulgarian state on the Balkans .
The volume is being realized in collaboration with the Institute for History of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
This volume contains Austro-Hungarian, German, French, English, Russian and Belgian diplomatic documents concerning the dethronement of the Bulgarian Prince Alexander I and the Bulgarian crisis.
The volume is being prepared in collaboration with the Main Office of State Archives at the Council of Ministers of Republic of Bulgaria.
The three-volume work presents a Bulgarian translation of a huge amount of basic documents pertaining to the Bulgarian-German political and economic relations during WWI. Each volume contains approximately 1000 pages of most important documents from the Political Archive of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Bonn), the Military Archive Department at the German Federal Archive in Freiburg in Breisgau, and archival documents from a series of other imperial and royal institutions.
This three-volume work elucidates the so far insufficiently studied Bulgarian-German relations connected with the modernization process of Bulgarian economy and with the big project realization on the part of the leading German financial-industrial corporations for promoting of the agricultural and industrial development of Bulgaria.
The present documentary collection exhibits the mutual profitability of the intertwining of the global German geopolitical interests with Bulgarian economic interests. Furthermore, it is worthwhile to stress that Bulgarian-German relations are not being presented on exclusively bilateral level only. These relations are elucidated in the context of their functional relationship with the political interests on the Balkans both of the allies
Austria-Hungary and Turkey, as well as of Bulgarian neighbors and the Entente powers.
The three volumes are prepared in collaboration with the Institute for History of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Central Office of State Archives at the Council of Ministers of Republic of Bulgaria.
The purpose of this documentary project is to track down, and make accessible to the general public, the most important documents concerning the economic and interstate relations between Bulgaria and Germany (FRG and former GDR) in the period of the overwhelming economic crisis plaguing all former socialist countries in Europe which culminated in the inevitable political changes in 1989. This volume is part of a larger project on the same topic covering the period after WWII till the present days.
The choice of the 80-ies as a starting period for investigation was as due to the great public interest in this period. At that time, Bulgaria, in spite of the dominating communist ideological doctrines, was aimed at developing close economic relations with the European Common Market, predominantly with its leading member FRG. Concurrently Bulgaria was using the channels of the socialist Union for Economic Cooperation to foster its economic ties with GDR. All of the above mentioned economic interrelations constitute at present an important research area for a systematic scientific investigation.
The final goal of such a study is to achieve a more thorough and exhaustive knowledge of European history after WWII. The documentary elucidation of this period would pave the ground for theoretical understanding of the final stage of the impending collapse of the European version of the historic paradigm after 1945: the half century lasting model of parallel coexistence and interaction, dictated by the real-life economic laws, of a state–owned centralized economy, on one hand, with a free market economy, on the other hand.
In this context it is precisely the Bulgarian-German relations, which appear as a characteristic pattern of economic interrelations during the 80-ies within the global European economic framework at that time juxtaposing capitalism and socialism.
The above volume is being prepared in a bi-national collaboration: with the Central Office of State Archives at the Council of Ministers of Republic of Bulgaria, the Institute for History and the Institute for Balkan Studies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Sofia University "St. Clement of Ochrid", on Bulgarian side, and Suedost-Institut, Munich, Osteuropa-Institut of the Freie Universitaet, Berlin, and the Bundesarchiv, Koblenz, on German side.