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Throughout the period of communist rule (1944–90) Bulgaria was the most loyal and placid ally of the Soviet Union and has been described as a ‘byword for acquiescence and conformity with the Soviet model’ (Crampton, 1997:241). In Bulgaria there was no rejection of the Soviet model as in Yugoslavia and Albania, no threatening attempts to create socialism with a human face as in the Prague Spring, no national deviation as in Romania, no popular uprisings as in East Germany in 1953, Hungary in 1956 or widespread popular opposition movements such as Solidarity in Poland. While the Plovdiv tobacco workers did go on strike in 1953 (Crampton, 1997:195) and the collectivization of agriculture was imposed on Bulgarian farmers, Bulgaria stands out for the relative lack of concern it caused the Soviet Union. In fact, Bulgaria did very little to give the Soviet Union any disquiet and on occasions it appeared more subservient than even the Soviet Union found comfortable, for example, when it expressed the wish of actually becoming a member of the USSR.
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Edwards, V., Lawrence, P. (2000). Bulgaria. In: Management in Eastern Europe. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-333-99397-2_7
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