Vol. 104 No. 1 (2019): Annual of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" - Faculty of History

GSU-IF Volume 104 contains three studies dedicated to different topics of European and Bulgarian history in the 19th and 20th centuries. M. Simov examines the changes and actions of Russian military intelligence after Russia's loss in the Crimean War of 1856, mainly in the period until the beginning of the Eastern Crisis, using a variety of documentary material. L. Krastev clarifies the impact of the large smallpox epidemic during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 - 1871, posing the question of the role of diseases in critical times for societies. The third study by T. Borisov is dedicated to the policy of the Bulgarian Communist Party towards Bulgarian football from 1944 until the fall of communism in 1989. At the end of the volume there is information about the authors.