Eric Halsey
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Podcast by Eric Halsey
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Eric Halsey makes Bulgaria's political history legible by connecting domestic power struggles with economics, diplomacy, and regional pressure.
The Bulgarian History Podcast builds Bulgaria's past through patient, connected narrative, with Eric Halsey tracing how governments, political movements, economic pressures, and neighboring states shape one another.
A silver-backed banknote can send you straight into the politics of who gets heard.
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Bulgaria's agrarian regime faces organized opposition as party conflict turns openly violent.
Blood on the Streets follows Bulgaria as the agrarian regime confronts opponents increasingly willing to organize outside parliament and speak in the language of force.
Ljapcev lowers Bulgaria's political temperature while its borders stay exposed.
Bulgaria's turn toward political moderation comes with the violence it is trying to leave behind still very much in view. The episode tracks the country from the aftermath of the Svetlana Delia Church bombing through Tsankov's expanded internal security crackdown and the…
A Balkan political reset places Bulgaria's dictatorship inside a wider European crisis.
Episode 244 frames Bulgaria's post-coup government as part of a wider Balkan crisis rather than a self-contained rupture. The Military League and Zveno have abolished the constitution, banned political parties, censored the press, taken over much of the banking sector and local…
A coup's aftermath hardens into a doomed uprising shaped by clashing party and Comintern orders.
Alexander Tsankov's government has effectively secured legal recognition, just as the Bulgarian Communist Party is pushed toward an uprising that few involved believe can succeed.
A church consecration gives way to repression, factional violence, and political catastrophe.
"Holy Sunday" tracks how political legitimacy curdles into political terror, beginning with the September 1924 consecration of Alexander Nevsky Church and moving into the tightening system of suppression, factional violence, and revolutionary planning around the Tsenkov regime.
A grim Bulgarian crisis traced through factional violence, border panic, and the uneasy reach of state power.
The Terror frames Bulgaria's political violence as a grim chain reaction, where repression, factional conflict, and border crisis keep tightening around one another.
A dense, structured recap of Bulgaria's postwar turmoil as Stambuliski's government comes under mounting pressure.
Episode 237 gives a clear, orderly account of season 10, following Bulgaria from the hard aftermath of the First World War into the growing strain around Stambuliski's government.
A 1930 Bulgarian election shows democracy working just as the ground starts to shift.
Bulgarian democracy gets an unusually clear test here. The episode follows the 1930 election, when the ruling party loses and steps aside, and it uses vote totals, coalition shifts, and parliamentary seats to show how unusual that handoff was in Bulgarian history.
British history through power, women, and memory.
History as context, consequence, and conversation.
Berlin history, fast banter, sharp human detail.
This episode covers early 1921 in Bulgaria, focusing on Stambuliski's agrarian reforms, economic struggles with war reparations, and rising political violence from groups like the VMRO and communists.
The Bulgarian History Podcast episode 233, “The Terror,” tracks how Tsankov’s government used the 1925 state of emergency to expand the gendarme to 6,800 men, split police into three types, and push power toward district governors and chiefs.
The Bulgarian History Podcast takes a usual end-of-season pause for a recap.
The Bulgarian History Podcast episode 232, “Holy Sunday,” traces Bulgaria’s slide from the 1924 consecration of Alexander Nevsky Church into the spring 1925 wave of assassinations, arrests, and political violence.
Episode 228 of The Bulgarian History Podcast tracks the May–June 1923 coup against Aleksandar Stamboliyski after the agrarians won 54% of the vote and nearly 87% of the seats.
Another coup brews in Bulgaria.
The Bulgarian History Podcast episode 238 tracks the June 8, 1923 coup against Stambuliski, the rise of Alexandre Tsankov, and the rapid collapse of agrarian power.
The episode opens on a brittle political high point.
Germany’s remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936, Italy’s annexation of Ethiopia, and the Spanish Civil War all show revisionist powers testing the postwar order.
The Bulgarian History Podcast episode 248, "A Tidy and Disciplined Democracy," centers on Bulgaria's January 24, 1937 Treaty of Eternal Friendship with Yugoslavia and the way it weakens the Balkan Pact and Little Entente.
Eric Halsey opens with thanks to supporters and mentions that he has begun work on a sequel to his First Bulgarian Empire book.
Bulgaria reaches a political breaking point.
The episode opens with listener thanks and a quick book mention before moving into the political strain building around Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Yugoslavia.
The episode picks up in 1930.
After the Great Communist September Uprising is crushed, Tsankov's regime tightens its grip in the wake of the coup.
Eric Halsey uses Bulgaria's transition to the euro to trace the lev back to the first years after partial liberation from the Ottoman Empire.
This episode covers late 1921 to mid-1922 in Bulgarian history, focusing on Stambuliski's agrarian regime facing growing domestic opposition and foreign threats.
The narrator looks back at the June 1923 coup and the fast collapse of Stamboliski's Agrarian regime.
In spring 1927, Bulgaria comes under pressure from every side.
Boris is tightening his grip.
Episode 250 opens with rearmament and a milestone note.
Andrei Lepchev replaces Tsankov in early 1926 after London bankers and League of Nations loan talks make his violent rule a liability.
Episode 241 of The Bulgarian History Podcast covers King Alexander of Yugoslavia's 1931 constitution, the Balkan Pact, and Bulgaria's improving but uneasy relations with Belgrade.
This episode covers the escalating political violence in Bulgaria during 1922, including assassinations of opposition figures, the consolidation of anti-agrarian forces into the Constitutional Bloc, and violent clashes in Veliko Tarnovo.
Episode 246 of The Bulgarian History Podcast follows Andrei Toshev’s new government in April 1935, after Tsar Boris I had already forced out the Military League and Zveno.
The Bulgarian History Podcast episode 239, “Love and Depression,” pairs Bulgaria’s early Great Depression with Tsar Boris III’s 1930 marriage to Princess Giovanna de Savoia.
Germany’s March 1939 occupation of the rest of Czechoslovakia, Italy’s annexation of Albania, and the Nationalists’ victory in the Spanish Civil War are presented as part of a fast-moving collapse of the post-Munich order.
The Bulgarian History Podcast episode 230, “The September Uprising,” follows the June-to-September 1923 consolidation of Alexander Tsankov’s government after the overthrow of Alexander Stambuliski.
Checkmate follows a tightening board.
Episode 249 starts with pressure building.