Lost and Familiar Worlds of Socialism
A new history of early socialists in Bulgaria documents how many problems of the movement reach across the generations.

A postcard commemorating the 1923 uprising.
Maria Todorova’s study of how socialism was understood and experienced at the time of the Second International reconstructs a complex and diverse movement in sharp, candid style. The ‘golden age’ of socialism after 1848 — so named for the extension in much of Europe of parliamentary democracy, enabling the creation of mass socialist parties — may be […]