THE BULGARIAN CHURCH REPRESENTATION IN ISTANBUL AND THE ISSUE OF LIFTING THE SCHISM

Nowadays in Istanbul, Turkey, there is a Bulgarian colony, which was created after the Second Balkan War and the First World War. It was not related to the Bulgarians in Constantinople from the times of the Bulgarian National Revival, but through the Foundatio...

THE CONTRIBUTION OF TODOR BOURMOV IN THE ELABORATION OF THE ORIGINAL DRAFT OF THE ORGANIC STATUTE OF THE BULGARIAN PRINCIPALITY

The views of Todor Bourmov for the government of Bulgaria are reflected in a document stored in Russian archives. At the first its publication, the document was defined as a response of one of the Bulgarian notables – Todor Bourmov – to the questions of the Ru...

THE BIOGRAPHY OF MAX VON SCHULZ, A RUSSIAN OFFICER AND INVENTOR, AS A SOURCE OF BULGARIAN NAVAL HISTORY

THE POLICY OF THE GERMAN AUTHORITIES TOWARDS THE JEWS IN THE FIRST YEARS OF WORLD WAR II (1939 – 1941). THE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND LEGAL CONTEXT

The article tries to characterize the plight of the Jewish community – in its legal, social and economic aspect – on German-occupied Polish soil in the first years of WWII (1939-1941). The text analyzes the key measures of the German authorities toward the Jew...

THE BEGINNINGS OF THE SOCIALIST CONSPIRACY PPS-WRN

The article presents inception and the first months of the functioning of the underground Polish Socialist Party occurring in 1939-1944, under the code name “Wolność-Równość-Niepodległość” (Freedom-Equality-Independence). It shows both the pre-war preparations...

IN A (NOT COMPLETELY) DISTORTING MIRROR. POLAND VIEWED FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE AUTHORITIES AND OF THE POPULATION OF THE SOVIET UNION ON THE EVE OF AND DURING THE SOVIET AGGRESSION AGAINST POLAND IN SEPTEMBER 1939

This article intends to answer two fundamental questions: 1) What kind of image of Poland was created by the authorities of the Soviet Union on the eve of and during the Soviet aggression against Poland on 17 September 1939? 2) Did Soviet society accept this i...

COLLABORATION OF NATIONAL MINORITIES OF THE SECOND POLISH REPUBLIC WITH THE SOVIETS IN THE AREAS OCCUPIED BY THE RED ARMY IN SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER 1939.

The article presents the issue related to the collaboration of national minorities during the Soviet Union’s aggression against Poland in 1939. The appearances of the Ukrainian and Jewish minorities against the Polish population led to a huge amount of crimes....