Prof. Dr. Iskra Baeva

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Iskra Baeva

Professor of Contemporary History (20^th Century) in Faculty of History, Sofia University `St. Kliment Ohridski`, PhD

World History and History of Central-East Europe in 20^th Century

Faculty of History, Department of Modern and Contemporary History

ACADEMIC DEGREES AND POSITIONS

1971–1974 – Faculty of History, Department of Ancient and Medieval History, Sofia University

– Faculty of Slavic Philology

1974 – M. A. Thesis “Nicolo Machiavelli as a Historian”

1982 – PhD in Contemporary History

with a dissertation “The Polish Agrarian Party of Mikolayczyk 1944-1948”

1982 onwards – Senior and later – Chief Assistant Professor of at the Department of Modern and Contemporary History in Faculty of History at Sofia University

1995 – Associated Professor at Sofia University.

Habilitation thesis “Eastern Europe after Stalin 1953–1956. Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria)”

2011 – Professor at Sofia University with book `Eastern Europe in 20<sup>th</sup> Century`

RESEARCH INTERESTS

– History of Central and Eastern Europe in 19–20^th Century, Social and Political Crisis from 50s to 80s Years

– History of Bulgaria in 20–21^th Century, Socialist Bulgaria, Bulgaria in transition

– History of Cold War in 20^th Century, the World after Cold War

– History of Foreign Relation in 20^th Century

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS:

1977–1978 – UNESCO scholarship for Poland

1985 – Department of Political Sciences. Warsaw University

1987 – Institute for History. Warsaw University

1994 – Woodraw Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, USA