256;
state ownership, viii, 3, 32-33, 69, 249;
supply system, 251-252;
textile, 208, 264, 267;
trusts, 5-6, 203, 213, 249, 250, 251

Institute for the Improvement of Teachers: 118-119

Institute for Political Instruction: 121

international organizations: vii

irredentism: 1, 2, 9, 10, 13, 20, 21-22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 176

Iskur River: 41, 42, 49

Italy: 9, 27, 28, 179, 222

Ivan Asen II: 14

Ivan Vazov State Library: 199

Jews: 2, 28, 34, 55, 58, 67, 106;
emigration, 34, 58;
World War II, 28

Johnson, Lyndon B.: 177

judicial system: viii, 7, 138, 144, 148-149, 269, 283-284;
Chief Prosecutor, 138, 141, 144, 148-149;
district courts, 148;
military courts, viii, 148, 297-298;
party control, 149;
penal institutions, 7, 269, 284-286;
special courts, viii;
Supreme Court, viii, 141, 144, 148, 149, 297

Kalarov, Vasil: 25, 32

Kaloyan: 14

Kamchiya River: 46

Karavelov, Lyuben: 126

Khristov, Boris: 129

Khrushchev, Nikita: 3, 34, 35, 102-103, 161, 173, 192

Komsomol. _See_ Dimitrov Communist Youth Union

Kostov, Traicho: 34, 35

Koulekov, Pencho: 133

Kozloduy: 255

Kremikovtsi: 257

Krumovo: 257

Kurdzhali: 259

Kyustendil: 196

labor: viii, 58, 207-210, 252, 261, 262-264, 300;
agricultural, viii, 207, 225, 232, 237-238, 246;
BKP membership, 159;
Construction Troops, 269, 273-275;
employment, 207, 264;
Labor Army, 274;
lack of incentive, 204;
preferential treatment of workers, 6, 73, 74, 76, 93-94, 99, 162;
shortage of skilled workers, viii, 203, 207-208, 225, 237, 244, 245,
246, 256, 263, 300;
sickness and disability benefits, 89-90;
wages, 84, 208-210, 237-238, 262-263;
workweek, 91

language: vii, 97, 102;
Cyrillic alphabet, 12, 126;
foreign, education in, 113;
minorities, vii;
Russian, compulsory education, 109, 110

Lasarov, Ivan: 133

Levski, Vasil: 19

liberation, 1878: 1-2, 19-21, 52, 287, 288;
Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee, 19;
Congress (Treaty) of Berlin, 2, 22;
growth of nationalism, 17-20;
Internal Secret Revolutionary Organization, 19;
"moderates"-"radicals", 19;
revolution of 1876, 19-20, 288;
Russian role in, 1, 19, 20, 172;
Treaty of San Stefano, 1878, 2, 20, 22;
Turnovo Constitution, 21, 32, 138-139

libraries: 183-184, 199-200;
Cyril and Methodius Library, 187

literature: 125-