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Radical political transformation in Eastern Europe since the early 1990s has been responsible for a large-scale declassification process of the formerly top secret Warsaw Pact archives. Between 2010 and 2013, the Bulgarian military and military intelligence records for the whole Cold War era up to the 1990s were also made available. During the previous two decades, the author of this chapter had a chance to reveal and publish a huge amount of new archival documents and to analyze some important issues on the role of Bulgaria in the Warsaw Pact, particularly about the doctrinal and organizational development of the East European bloc and the Bulgarian attitude toward the major global and regional postwar conflicts.
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Baev, J. (2017). The Warsaw Pact in the Balkans: The Bulgarian Perspective. In: Rajak, S., Botsiou, K., Karamouzi, E., Hatzivassiliou, E. (eds) The Balkans in the Cold War. Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-43903-1_6
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