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Experiences of Communist Modernization in a Bulgarian Muslim Village, 1945-2005.
Nahodilová, Lenka ; Bouzek, Jan (advisor) ; Kandert, Josef (referee) ; Stewart, Michael (referee)
This PhD thesis, entitled "Experiences of Communist modernization in a Bulgarian Muslim Village, 1945-2005", examines the impact of a specific project of Communist modernization, analyzing how this state driven development was experienced and interpreted by the Bulgarian speaking Muslims ("Pomaks") during the Communist period and the post-socialist transition. Rather than analysing political structures, this research is principally concerned with the implementation of and responses to political ideas. The thesis approach to this particular Muslim community questions using of theories of ethnicity and attempts to deconstruct the way in which the Communist state created or invented the distinctive features of this group. Gender plays a central role in the regime's assimilation as well in the community's strategy of resistance against modernism. During the period of social and economic decline the former target groups of the development project experienced dramatic social and economic changes in which people had to find new economic means of subsistence and alternative consumer strategies. The former political elite and the existing system of power relations broke down and were replaced by new elites which introduced a new discourse and new political ideologies, based on an amalgamate of different ideological...
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