BALKANS AT THE CROSSROADS OF INDIVIDUALS AND CULTURES: CENTRISM IN THE POLITICAL PALETTE OF BULGARIAN SOCIALISM (THE LATE 19TH – EARLY 20TH CENTURIES)
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Abstract
Turning to the analysis of the phenomenon of centralism in the Social-Democratic movement of Bulgaria, it is necessary from the very beginning to imagine the civilization context in which one of the most interesting left-wing political movements in the Balkans was formed and further developed in the late 19th – early 20th centuries. Based on the platform of multi-vector cultural layers, this movement (in the format of “political mediation”), on the one hand, absorbed the strategy of Western modernization, and on the other – actively used fragments of Eastern and Eastern Christian entropy of the ethnocultural palette of the Balkans, embodied in the civilization context of the Ottoman empire, partly Byzantium, and also, much later, the Russian Empire. As a result, if we use the logic of the Bulgarian socialist P. Deliradev, it can be argued that the Balkans, and especially Bulgaria (and hence directly representatives of the socialist “mediation”), were on the crest of the civilization “watershed” of Western mentality and of the East Asian, Eurasian and post-Byzantine influence of Turkey and Russia. In the latter example, it is necessary to emphasize in particular the principled position in the formation of the Bulgarian Orthodox mentality, which, in essence, was and remains the central element of the Bulgarian national organism. Moreover, the similarity of the Catholic and East Christian resistance to the Islamic influence in the Balkans allows us to speak about the local version of the “Orthodox Reconciliation”. Thus, summing up all the above, one must admit that in the synthetic ethnocultural space of the Balkans a particularly steady need for genetic bearers of traditionalism was formed and consistently developed. In this case, it is a question of political, rather socialist, and “intermediaries” capable of exporting in one form or another Western culture to civilizationally heterogeneous regions of this religion. Thus, it can be argued that the ethnocultural and civilizational characteristics of the Balkans, analyzed in this report, in many respects predetermined the specificity of the left centrism of the late 19th – early 20th centuries, the Balkans in general and the Bulgarian in particular.
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2nd World Congress of the Comin-tern, Balkans, Bulgaria, centrism, Modernization, social democratic movement, traditionalism
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