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$Unique_ID{COW00615}
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$Title{Bulgaria
Glossary}
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$Author{Eugene K. Keefe//L}
$Affiliation{United States Government}
$Subject{
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$Date{1974}
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Country: Bulgaria
Book: Bulgaria, A Country Study
Author: Eugene K. Keefe//L
Affiliation: United States Government
Date: 1974
Glossary
BKP-Bulgarska Komunisticheska Partiya (Bulgarian Communist Party). Party
dates its origins from the founding of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party
in 1891. Through many years of factional splits, coalitions, changes of
designation, underground operations, and front organizations, the BKP finally
emerged from World War II (with Soviet backing) as the only viable political
force in the country.
COMECON-Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. Economic alliance
founded in 1949 to further cooperation among member states. Members are
Bulgaria, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Mongolia, Poland,
Romania, and the Soviet Union. Headquarters is in Moscow.
Fatherland Front-An umbrella organization for all other mass
organizations; provides a structure for democratic electoral processes but,
actually, is controlled by the BKP.
greenback-United States legal tender. Term used in international
monetary transactions since convertibility of the United States dollar into
gold was suspended on August 15, 1971.
lev (pl., leva)-Basic unit of currency; divided into 100 stotinki (q.v.).
Officially rated at the artificial level of 0.97 per US $1. Lev is
non-convertible and is actually exchanged at several different rates
depending on type of transaction.
stotinki (sing., stotinka)-100 stotinki equal one lev.
Warsaw Treaty Organization (Warsaw Pact)-A military alliance founded in
1955. The Soviet minister of defense is traditionally the supreme commander
of the joint pact forces. Members are Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany,
Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union.