Contents

Articles

Simon Najm – The Rūm Orthodox Community of Syria and Lebanon in the Light of Tanzimat: The Reorganization of the Millet System, the Bulgarian Question and Their Impact on Arab Orthodox Nationalism (1856–1885)3

Marek Jakoubek – Bericht von Herrn Prediger Simeon Popoff, aus der Missionstätigkeit in Voyvodovo (1938) – eine einzigartige Ressource für die Erforschung der Geschichte dem einzigen tschechischen Dorf in Bulgarien 34

Zhivko Lefterov – The Fate of the Metaxas Defense Line after the Capitulation of the Kingdom of Greece in 1941 (Part II)59

Kristina Popova – Travelling Pavlovizm: Ideas on Children’s Development and on Preschool Education in Bulgaria and the GDR in the 1950s: Prof. Eva Schmidt-Kolmer and Prof. Sophia Avramova85

Yana Yancheva – The Ideologically Constructed Image of the Socialist Child and the Perceptions on its Body113

Ekaterina Tsolova, Maria Kouvari, Silke Langenberg – Shaping the Bulgarian Youth: The Architectural Heritage of Pioneer Camps, 1944–1989148

Nevena Dimitrova – Sports and Recreational Policies in Post-war Bulgaria171

Georgeta Nazarska – The ‘Study of Man and His Brain’ Longterm Comprehensive Program in Bulgaria (1984–1995): in Searching of ‘Harmoniously Developed Personality’192

Denitsa Nencheva – What is “Anthropotechnics”: on the Trail of a Transforming Concept211

Reviews of Books

Anna Kochankova – An Innovative Study of the Bulgarian Priesthood in Macedonia (1904–1912)235

Евгений Сергеев – Новая книга по истории британо-греческих отношений XIX века (Evgeny Sergeev. A New Book on the History of British-Greek Relations in the 19th Century)241