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This study, which is an updated, extended, and revised version of the out-of-print 1993 edition, reassesses the traditional stereotype of the place of the Balkans in the model of the European family in the nineteenth century on the basis of new source material and by synthesizing existing research. The work first analyzes family structure and demographic variables as they appear in population registers and other sources, and the impact of these findings on theoretical syntheses of the European family pattern. On most features, such as population structure, marriage and nuptiality, birth and fertility, death and mortality rates, family and household size and structure, as well as inheritance patterns, the Balkans show an enormous deal of internal variety. This variability is put in a comparative European context by matching the quantifiable results with comparable figures and patterns in other parts of Europe. The second section of the book is a contribution to the long-standing debate over the zadruga, the complex, collective, joint or extended family in the Balkans. Finally, the book considers ideology and mythology and the ways it has adversely affected scholarship on the family, and broadly on population history.

HISTORY --- Europe / Eastern --- Business & Economics --- Demography --- Family demography --- Bulgaria --- Population. --- Social life and customs. --- Bulgaristan --- Volksrepublik Bulgarien --- Republic of Bulgaria --- Republika Bŭlgariya --- Republika Bŭlgarii︠a︡ --- People's Republic of Bulgaria --- République bulgare --- Narodna Republika Bŭlgariya --- Bŭlgariya --- Narodna republika Bŭlgarii︠a︡ --- Bŭlgarii︠a︡ --- Bugarska --- Bulgarien --- Bulharsko --- Voulgaria --- Burugaria --- NRB --- Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika Bolgarii︠a︡ --- Bulgario --- Republika Bulgaria --- Bulgarie --- Bolgarija --- Bâlgarija --- République de Bulgarie --- República de Bulgaria --- България --- Република България --- Болгария --- Bolgarii︠a︡ --- Республика Болгария --- Respublika Bolgarii︠a︡ --- 保加利亚 --- Baojialiya --- 保加利亚共和国 --- Baojialiya Gongheguo --- Families --- Research --- 19th century, Demography, Family life, Ottoman Empire, Population, Social life and customs.

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"Maria Todorova's book is devoted to the 'golden age' of the socialist idea, broadly surveying the period in and around the time of the Second International. It critically examines the promise for an alternative socialist utopia from 1870 to the 1920s. Todorova brings in the experience of the periphery in a comparative context in the belief that the margins can often elucidate better the character of a phenomenon, and de-provincialize it from essentialist notions. In doing so, The Lost World of Socialists at Europe's Margins moves beyond the traditional historiographical emphasis on ideology by looking at different intersections or entanglements of spaces, generations, genders, ideas and feelings, and different flows of historical time. The study provides a social and cultural history of early socialism in Eastern Europe with an emphasis on Bulgaria, arguably the country with the earliest and strongest socialist movement in Southeast Europe, and one that had a unique relationship to both German and Russian social democracy. Based on a rich prosopographical database of around 3500 biographies of people born in the 19th century, the book addresses the interplay of several generations of leftists, looking at the specifics of how ideas were generated, received, transferred and transformed. Finally, the work investigates the intersection between subjectivity and memory as reflected in a unique cache of archival materials containing over 4000 documentary sources including diaries, oral interviews, and unpublished memoirs. A microhistorical approach to this material allows the reconstruction of 'structures of feeling' that inspired an exceptional group of individuals"--

Socialism --- History