128, 187;
historic, 12, 14, 15;
periodicals, 126, 128;
_Slav-Bulgarian History_, 18, 95, 126;
writers' revolt, 127-128;
Writers' Union, 125

living conditions (_see also_ health; housing): 79-91, 300;
Commission on the Living Standard, 84, 205;
consumer goods, shortage, 83, 84, 86;
cost of living, 83-84, 85;
leisure, 91;
rural, 53, 88;
special plenum on, viii, 83-84, 87, 203, 205, 209-210;
workers and peasants, 84, 85

local government: vii, 50-52, 137, 138, 140, 141, 147-148;
budget, 213;
cities and towns (_rayoni_), 50, 147, 271;
civil defense, 276;
districts (_okruzi_), vii, 50, 52, 107, 144, 147, 159, 236;
elections, 149;
legal departments, 284;
police, 148, 271;
townships (_obshtini_), vii, 50, 52, 147, 271

Lovech: 254

Lulchev, Kosta: 32, 33

Macedonia: Bulgarian territorial claims, 1, 9, 13-14, 21-23, 24, 26,
27, 28, 49, 176;
historic, 9, 12, 14, 15, 17, 20-23, 29;
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO), 22, 25, 26;
People's Republic of, 66

Macedonians: vii, 55, 58, 65, 66

Macedonian terrorism: 23, 25, 26

Madan: 55, 259

Magyars: 12, 13

Manov, Emil: 128

Maritsa-Iztok coalfield: 253

Maritsa River: 40, 42, 45, 49, 55, 59, 60, 226, 227, 255

Marxism-Leninism (_see also_ ideological indoctrination _under_
education): 141, 167, 175

mass communications (_see also_ films; press; publishing; radio and
television): viii, 183-202;
administration, 187-188;
local groups, 185;
objectives, 183, 184-185;
party control, 183, 186;
pro-Soviet themes, 183, 188, 189, 191;
public opinion, 184;
relative popularity, 185;
state ownership and regulation, viii, 183;
themes, 183, 188-189, 191

mass organizations (_see also_ Dimitrov Communist Youth Group;
Fatherland Front): 7, 65, 76, 77, 164-169;
BKP control through, 7, 153, 164, 165, 166;
civil defense, 276;
ideological training, 169;
memberships, importance, 76;
public order role, ix, 276;
social pressure by, 269;
sources of popular opinion, 7;
trade unions, 89, 166, 185, 193, 276, 277;
youth groups, 8, 76, 167-168, 277-279

merchant marine: 62

Mesta River: 42, 49, 226

Methodius: 11, 126

Mihailov, Ivan: 161

Milev, Ivan: 132

mineral resources: 37, 47-48, 252-257

mineral waters: 48

Ministry of: Agriculture (and Food Industry), 193, 205, 228,