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This brilliant study by Maria Todorova makes crucial contributions both to the history of European socialism and the history of southeastern Europe, while also offering a pioneering investigation of the history of the sentiments and emotions in relation to political thought. * Larry Wolff, Julius Silver Professor of History, New York University, US * The Bulgarian socialist movement was one of the main intellectual transmitter belts for political, social and economic ideas between Russia, Western Europe and Germany--the stronghold of international socialism before World War I--on the one hand and post-Ottoman Bulgaria on the other. Maria Todorova brilliantly reconstructs a lost world : The pan-European network of socialist theoreticians and activists like Blagoev and Kautsky, Kirkov and Trotsky, and many others. A must read for every Europeanist! * Stefan Troebst, Professor of East European Cultural History, Leipzig University, Germany * A triumphant vindication of the historian's view from the periphery. Using Bulgaria as the fulcrum for her analysis, Todorova challenges taken-for-granted approaches to early European socialism, while at the same time re-animating the ideas, experiences and emotions of men and women who shared the potent dream of 'a utopia of the future'. * Wendy Bracewell, Professor of Southeast European History, University College London, UK *

This brilliant study by Maria Todorova makes crucial contributions both to the history of European socialism and the history of southeastern Europe, while also offering a pioneering investigation of the history of the sentiments and emotions in relation to political thought. * Larry Wolff, Julius Silver Professor of History, New York University, USA * The Bulgarian socialist movement was one of the main intellectual transmitter belts for political, social and economic ideas between Russia, Western Europe and Germany--the stronghold of international socialism before World War I--on the one hand and post-Ottoman Bulgaria on the other. Maria Todorova brilliantly reconstructs a lost world : The pan-European network of socialist theoreticians and activists like Blagoev and Kautsky, Kirkov and Trotsky, and many others. A must read for every Europeanist! * Stefan Troebst, Professor of East European Cultural History, Leipzig University, Germany * A triumphant vindication of the historian's view from the periphery. Using Bulgaria as the fulcrum for her analysis, Todorova challenges taken-for-granted approaches to early European socialism, while at the same time re-animating the ideas, experiences and emotions of men and women who shared the potent dream of 'a utopia of the future'. * Wendy Bracewell, Professor of Southeast European History, University College London, UK *

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Maria Todorova is Gutgsell Professor of History Emerita at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. She is the author of Imagining the Balkans (revised edition, 2009), which has been translated into 15 languages; Bones of Contention: The Living Archive of Vasil Levski and the Making of Bulgaria's National Hero (2009); Balkan Family Structure and the European Pattern: Demographic Developments in Ottoman Bulgaria (revised edition, 2006); and Scaling the Balkans: Essays on Eastern European Entanglements (2018). She led large scale international research projects resulting in several edited and co-edited volumes, including: Balkan Identities: Nation and Memory (2002); Remembering Communism: Genres of Representation (2010); Postcommunist Nostalgia (2010);and Remembering Communism: Private and Public Recollections of Lived Experiences in Southeastern Europe (2014). She has held awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, The Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the National Humanities Center, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and The Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, and is the recipient of honorary degrees from the European University Institute in Italy, the University of Sofia, Bulgaria and Panteion University in Greece. In 2022, she received the Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Award and was elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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