By focusing on the radical reforms undertaken in Eastern Europe over the last decade, this study analyzes the structures and mechanisms of labour relations in Eastern Europe. It looks at the action processes within enterprises and at the processes of strategy formulation at the national level in Bulgaria, and compares them with such processes in other Eastern European countries, especially Yugoslavia and Hungary, but also the Soviet Union, Poland and Czechoslovakia.

This volume is the first comprehensive collection to gather together the records of the medieval Bulgarian centuries in English translation. Stone annals, works of religious instruction, anti-heretical treatises, apocrypha, royal charters, as well as numerous graffiti and marginal notes, shed abundant light onto a major cultural tradition of the European southeast from the seventh to the fifteenth century. Produced by Bulgarians of all walks of life, the evidence testifies, among other things, to the unique features of Bulgarian historical consciousness, political custom, and religious...