6. Smoke-Filled Rooms: Places to Light Up in Communist Bulgaria

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Coffeehouse Babble: Smoking and Sociability in the Long Nineteenth Century 11
6. 2. No Smoke without Fire: Tobacco and Transformation, 1878–1914 43
7. 3. From the Orient Express to the Sofia Café: Smoke and Propriety in the Interwar Years 78
8. 4. The Tobacco Fortress: Asenovgrad Krepost and the Politics of Tobacco between the World Wars 108
9. 5. From Leaf to Ash: Jews, Germans, and Bulgarian Gold in the Second World War 134
10. 6. Smoke-Filled Rooms: Places to Light Up in Communist Bulgaria 167
11. 7. Smokes for Big Brother: Bulgartabak and Tobacco under Communism 199
12. Conclusion 229
13. Notes 235
14. Bibliography 281
15. Index 299