Table of Contents; Preface; From Metaphor toward Historical Epoch; Meanings of the Revival I: National and Cultural; Meanings of the Revival II: Economic and Social; Excursus on Periodization; Classes and Class Struggles; Paths of the Revival and National Heroes; The April Uprising, the Russo- Turkish Liberation War, and the Revolution; The Continuing Revival: Symbolic Struggles and Images; The Bulgarian Revival as a National Myth; GLOSSARY; A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX