| Popis: |
The book examines the place that Bulgaria and Serbia took in the life of Russian society during the Balkan wars of 1912-1913. The war of the Orthodox peoples of the Balkans against the Ottoman Empire stirred up Russian society. The media closely monitored the events, public lectures and meetings devoted to the war were held, donations, volunteers and Red Cross infirmaries went to the Peninsula. The Balkan states attempted use the sympathy of the Russian society to put pressure on the official Petersburg. At first, the need to remake the Balkans was justified in various ways. And then the Bulgarians and Serbs tried to prove their case in the dispute over Macedonia. The book shows the methods by which this pressure was carried out, identifies foreign and Russian subjects who participated in this propaganda campaign. Descriptions of the Balkans and Balkan peoples interested Russian readers, and correspondents described in detail what they saw. The monograph reconstructs the existing image of Bulgaria and Serbia. On its basis, with the involvement of other sources and scientific literature, an attempt is made to restore the real picture of life in Bulgaria and Serbia on the eve of the First world war and its features, to understand the peculiarity of Westernization "in the Balkan way". |
