library clubs, 125;
minority groups, vii;
National Revival, 18, 131-132, 134, 135;
National Theater, 123, 128;
prestige, 7, 123;
self-censorship, 7, 125;
Soviet model, 7, 124;
Stalinist period, 124;
subsidies, 123, 125, 127, 128;
unions, 7, 125, 187, 276

Asen: 13

Attila the Hun: 54

Australia, relations: 179

Austria, historic: 17

Bagrianov, Ivan: 28

Balkan-Bulgarian Airlines (BALKAN): ix, 62-63

Balkan Pact: 26-27

Balkan wars, 1912, 1913: 21, 22-23, 288

banks and banking: viii, 204, 215-219;
Bulgarian Foreign Trade Bank, viii, 215, 216, 219;
Bulgarian National Bank, viii, 215, 216, 219;
credit, 204, 216-217;
state lotteries, 217;
State Savings Bank, viii, 215-216, 217

Basil II: 13

Battle of Ankara: 17

Battle of Varna: 17

Belgium, relations: 178-179

Black Sea: viii;
effect on climate, 43, 44, 45, 46, 226;
patrol boats, 273;
ports, 54;
tourism, 196

Black Wind: 44

Blagoev, Dimiter: 30

Bobov Dol: 253-254, 255

Bokov, Georgi: 186

border troops: ix, 7, 269, 273, 289

Boris I: 11, 66

Boris III: 25, 26, 27, 28, 30

Botev: 196

Botev, Khristo: 126

boundaries: 2, 48-50;
Congress (Treaty) of Berlin--1878, 2, 22;
Greece, 49-50, 273;
post-World War I, 25, 49;
post-World War II, 29, 49;
Romania, 49, 50, 273;
Treaty of San Stefano--1878, 2, 20, 22;
Turkey, 49, 50, 273;
Yugoslavia, 49, 273

Boyana Church: 131

Bozhinov, Alexander: 132

Brezhnev, Leonid: 3, 156, 162

budget: 213-215

Bulgars: vii, 2

Bulgaranov, Boyan: 161

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences: 245

Bulgarian Agrarian Union: 21, 25, 26, 30, 31, 141, 150, 153, 163-164,
165, 191;
membership, 163, 277;
organization, 163

Bulgarian Communist Party (BKP) (_see also_ Politburo; State Council;
Tenth Congress): 3, 25, 141, 157-163;
Central Committee, vii, 3, 4, 153, 157-158, 160, 191;
democratic centralism, 157, 166;
first secretary, vii, 4, 140, 143, 158, 160;
growth of, 30-36, 158-159;
membership, 158-160, 276;
New Course, 34;
news organization, 192;
nomination of candidates, 150-151;
organization, 157-158, 284;
Party Congresses, 3, 155, 157, 159, 160-163;
party uprising--1923, 25-26, 30;
pre-World War II, 25, 26;
purges, 32, 34, 35, 36, 159, 161;
Secretariat, vii, 3, 4, 153, 157, 158, 162-163;
Soviet leadership, 156,