Prelude : Stalin, Dimitrov and the Nazi threat (1933-1941)
Great power diplomacy, resistance and popular front in Bulgaria (June 1941-September 1944)
Wartime coalition : unity and conflict (September 1944-April 1945)
The break-up of the wartime coalition (May-August 1945)
The search for common ground (September 1945-March 1946)
The hardening of battle lines (April-October 1946)
The final confrontation (October 1946-September 1947)
The false dawn of national communism (September 1947-December 1948)
Stalin's Cold War : Soviet foreign policy, democracy and communism in Bulgaria, 1941-48 by Vesselin Dimitrov. ISBN 9780230521384. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.