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Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes Imitation and Democracy [original title: The Light that Failed] 2019

The book won the Lionel Gelber Prize for the best English-language publication on international politics in 2020.

The book is a journey through the economic culture of the first Bulgarian capitalism, formed from the Liberation to the early 1940s. Marked by communism and the subsequent opening to the world, this culture continues to be reborn in today's economic forms. Communal capitalism is a reflection on various folds and layers of the "documentary economy" preserved in the archival heritage and in the testimonies of contemporaries.