This three-volume book researches comprehensively the architectural, artistic and material heritage of the People's Republic of Bulgaria through a rich visual presentation put in context. Volume One includes the must-visit locations for anyone with an interest in the triumphs and failures of Bulgaria's recent past: from “Buzludzha” and Dimitrovgrad to Stalinist Sofia and the monuments of the Northwest. Volume Two surveys the most remarkable and the oddest monuments and public art samples of the Communist era: from the images of Partizani and the Soviet soldiers to the ordinary working people. Volume Three explores the traces left over by the Communist regime in Bulgaria: from the abandoned military barracks and cinema theatres to the failed megaprojects and the nostalgia for the idealised Socialist past and its funny street signs.

Table of contents

Life among ghosts

The role of monuments

September 1923 uprising

Partizani

Who was Major Thompson?

Monuments and national history

Historical frescoes

Russo-Turkish war 1877—1878

Bulgarian-Soviet friendship

Long live the Soviet Union!

Red Army

Lenin

Poets and writers

We are building the new life

Love etc.

Children and Communism

Murals, mosaics, reliefs

Roadside signs

Amalgamations

Anti-Communist monuments

Goryani

Revival Process

Outside Bulgaria

Albania

Berlin

Bucharest

Budapest

Los Angeles

Las Vegas

London

New York City

Prague

Vienna

Yugoslavia

Пътеводител за комунистическа България. Том 2. Монументални страсти

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