Bulgaria’s Symphony of Hope

Issue Date October 1997
Volume 8
Issue 4
Page Numbers 125-39
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About the Author

Venelin I. Ganev is professor of political science at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he is also a faculty associate of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies. He is the author of Preying on the State: The Transformation of Bulgaria After 1989 (2007).

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