Front matter

Abstract

Volume 93-95 contains materials on topics from modern and contemporary history, as well as ethnology. All are accompanied by summaries in Russian and English. B. Georgieva traces the emergence and establishment of sport after the Liberation of Bulgaria as a social and cultural phenomenon. M. Markova proposes a typology of the specific characteristics of villages in the Central Balkans in Bulgaria in the process of transition from a traditional to a contemporary way of life. T. Karamelska analyzes the role of Ernst Tröltsch's journalism in the political reforms in Germany between 1914 and 1923. M. Gruev examines the process of the violent destruction of the Rodina organization of Bulgarian Muslims and the establishment of a new communist policy towards them between 1944 and 1948. R. Botev traces Winston Churchill's policy for the creation of a Council of Europe during World War II (1940-1945).