What can a quarrel over missing bones tell us about the great fight over who owns history, about life under communism and about the various responses to the challenges of globalization? A focus on the activities, death, and especially posthumous fate of Bulgaria's national hero Vasil Levski (1835-1873) provides a singular view into the mechanisms of hero worship, the symbology of nationalism, the links between religion and politics, and the meanings of memory and commemoration.
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