Tsarist Russia and Balkan Nationalism: Russian Influence in the Internal Affairs of Bulgaria and Serbia, 1879-1886

Tsarist Russia and Balkan Nationalism: Russian Influence in the Internal Affairs of Bulgaria and Serbia, 1879–1886 by Charles Jelavich examines the volatile relationship between Russian imperial policy and the rising nationalist movements of the Balkans in the wake of the Congress of Berlin. Anchored in the sharp observation of Bulgarian writer Liuben Karavelov—that liberators would be embraced but rulers opposed—Jelavich traces how Russian ambitions for influence repeatedly clashed with Bu...