The image of the Greeks in the work of the Bulgarian Revolutionary and intellectual Georgi Rakovski
Part of : Balkan studies : biannual publication of the Institute for Balkan Studies ; Vol.42, No.1-2, 2001, pages 89-107
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Rakovski had an ambivalent attitude towards the Greeks. Instilled withGreek education and consorting with Greeks, he regarded the Greeks as amodel for the Bulgarians, emphasizing above all their patriotism, love oflearning, and solidarity when the circumstances called for it. Once he hadmoved into political action on behalf of the Bulgarian national awaking, hegradually came to regard the Greeks as the Bulgarians’ adversaries. Thegraecomania of the wealthy Bulgarians posed an obstacle to the Bulgariannational cause and he attributed it to a plan of the Oecumenical Patriarchateto “hellenize” the Balkan peoples. Rakovski soon turned his fire on thepolitical forces in the Greek state, whose “Great Idea” he regarded as afantasy invented by the Phanar.
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Ελληνισμός στο έργο του Georgi Rakovski
