Front matter

Abstract

Vol. 78 contains historical studies, chronologically arranged from Ancient Mesopotamia to modern Bulgaria. The materials are accompanied by summaries in Russian and English.  In an extensive study by Vl. Popov, slavery in the cuneiform legislation of Eshnuwa, 3rd millennium BC in Ancient Mesopotamia, is examined. D. Popov analyzes the royal institution among the Thracians as part of his larger study on Thracian religion. The text by Y. Nikolov presents the author's thesis on the influence of feudal relations in Italy, France, and Germany in the 12th-13th centuries on religious heretical movements. I. Ilieva examines the influence of the Moscow chronicle on the formation of the ideology of Russian autocracy. The publication by St. Trifonov traces the development of the refugee issue after the first national catastrophe for Bulgaria in 1913-1915. Hr. Stefanov's detailed study examines the political relations in bourgeois Bulgaria between the radical democrats and the Bulgarian Workers' Socialist Party, the wing of the so-called narrow socialists - the BRSDP (Narrow Socialists). S. Popov analyzes the complex relationships between the Bulgarian Workers' Party (Communists), the Union of Bulgarian Writers, and the opposition in the postwar period from 1945 to 1947.