Year XXIV, Issue 5, 2016<<Archive>>
Civilizаtion Boundаriеs
PAYBACK TIME. THE ELEMENTAL PURGE OF THE OFFICER CORPS IN THE BULGARIAN ARMY IN SEPTEMBER 1944
The article examines the conduct of the elemental purge of the command staff of the Bulgarian army in the days around 9 September 1944. The author seeks to clarify the scale of this purge and to demonstrate the extremes in its implementation. This issue is i...
soldiers‘ committees, violent purge, officer corps
THE RELATIONS BETWEEN TURKEY AND THE GULF STATES
This article is an overview of the development of relations between Turkey and all six Gulf states (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE). The first rapprochement between these states is motivated by Turkey`s seeking for support from the Muslim a...
Turkey, Turkish Foreign Policy, Gulf Cooperation Council, Bilateral Relations, AKP
THE TURN IN THE RELATIONS BETWEEN SOCIALIST CAMP AND YUGOSLAVIA AFTER STALIN’S DEATH (1953 – 1955)
After Stalin’s death in March 1953 a new phase in the Soviet foreign policy started. The Soviet leadership took the initiative to restore relations with Yugoslavia, which in the period 1948 – 1953 recorded their lowest point. All countries of the socialist...
Socialist camp, Yugoslavia, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Khrushchev, Tito, People’s Republic of China
THE DÉTENTE TRIANGLE – AMERICA, BULGARIA AND IRAN IN THE 1960S
In the first half of the 1960s the Cold War confrontation entered into a new phase of arms races and uncontrollable ideological and psychological warfare that created obstacles for normal political, economic, and cultural cooperation between the two sides of...
People’s Republic of Bulgaria, Iran, USA, detente, peaceful coexistence, Todor Zhivkov, Amir Abbas Hoveyda
From Antiqity to Nowаdаys
THE CONTRACT BETWEEN PHILIP V AND HANNIBAL IN 215 BC IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SECOND PUNIC WAR (218 – 201 BC)
The Roman Republic and Carthage disputed the control of the western Mediterranean in three long and exhausting wars. During the Second Punic War, Carthaginian commander Hannibal invaded the Apennine peninsula and threatened the existence of the Roman Republic...
Roman Republic, Punic Wars, Philip V of Macedon, Hannibal
RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS AS VIEWED BY NIKOLAI BERDYAEV
Russian revolutions of 1917 still attract the attention of the historians. Was Russia able to avoid those cataclysms? Why was the Proletarian revolution accomplished in an undeveloped rural country? These and many other questions have answers sought in the...
humanity, revolution, Bolshevism, intellectuals, devils