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Bulgaria: Leaping Forward without Communes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Liliana Brisby
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The Chinese poet's call to Bulgaria to follow China's path into a bright Communist future reflects a view of the relationship between the two countries, which towards the end of 1958 was widely held in the West. Bulgaria's “Great Leap Forward” and the methods used to mobilise the masses for the Utopian plan for the economic break-through were linked with the visit of two high-powered Bulgarian delegations to China and interpreted by some observers as signs that the Party leaders in Sofia were deviating from the Moscow course in an attempt to hitch their wagon to the rising star of Peking.

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China and the Soviet Satellites: Part 1
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The China Quarterly , Volume 3 , September 1960 , pp. 80 - 84
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1960

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References

1 Cf. “Unforgettable Night,” Chinese poem published in the Bulgarian literary magazine Septemvri, No. 9, 1959Google Scholar, under the heading “Foreign Poets on Bulgaria.”

2 The value of trade between Bulgaria and the Soviet Union is planned to reach 2·3 billion roubles this year.