Photo: imperiya.by Part 2: the liberal economic reforms, the troubled 70s and lessons for contemporary Bulgaria 1965 Economic Reforms In order to address the structural problems of Yugoslavia’s foreign-trade policy, the Belgrade government introduced a major economic reform in 1965, which was a “complete abandonment” of classical Marxist theory (Margold, […]

Photo: imperiya.by Part 1: Yugoslavia between the regional trade blocs (1948-65) The Balkans was a politically and ideologically diverse region during the Cold War. Bulgaria and Romania were parties to the Warsaw Pact, Albania sided with the People’s Republic of China during the Sino-Soviet split, after which the country was […]