The national interpretation -- Concepts of the (Bulgarian) nation -- Nationalism and romanticism -- The national and the spiritual (cultural) meanings -- The analogy with the renaissance -- The Bulgarian revival and the enlightenment -- Analogies with the reformation -- The Bulgarian revival and European development -- Modernity and modernization -- The transition from feudalism to capitalism -- Capitalism during the revival -- Ottoman feudalism -- The social (bourgeois) revolution and the agrarian thesis -- The economic and the national-spiritual interpretation -- Excursus on periodization -- The urban "estate" and social struggles in older historiography -- Bourgeoisie and notables in earlier Marxist controversies -- Toward rehabilitation -- The peasants -- The intelligentsia -- The class struggles between the social and national -- Vulgar Marxist sociologism and its abandoning -- Paisii as a problem -- Evolutionists and revolutionaries -- The hierarchy of national heroes : Rakovski, Karavelov, Levski, Botev : reappraisals and reshuffling -- The April uprising and the Russo-Turkish war -- The revolution -- Revisions and reappraisal -- Rightist visions of the Bulgarian revival -- The democratic image -- The battle of the Communists for the legacy of the revival