Matthew S Tejada 
Bulgaria’s Democratic Consolidation and the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant 
The Unattainability of Closure. With a foreword by Richard J. Crampton

Bulgaria’s post-communist experience has been a fractured transition both politically and economically. How deeply has its democracy been consolidated? Has the residue of Bulgaria’s communist era finally been sloughed off? Are there lingering threats to democratic stability that could delay Bulgaria’s entry into the EU? And just how genuine a partner has the EU been in helping Bulgaria progress down its transition path?

If there is one single issue that can help to illuminate these troubling questions, it is the long and controversial history of the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant.

With Kozloduy producing perhaps as much as forty percent of Bulgaria’s electricity all Bulgarians‘ fate was inevitably connected with the nuclear plant. That so important a question has not been sufficiently covered in western-language publications is partly due to the fact that information has been so hard to come by, and most researchers did not have the language qualifications necessary to pursue local investigations.

Matthew Tejada has interviewed many of those in the Kozloduy saga and has read through archives and other sources not previously made known to western researchers. What he has to say tells us a great deal that is new about a neglected but vitally important issue.

Über den Autor

The Author:

Matthew Tejada graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Texas in 2000. From 2000-2002 he was a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Bulgaria. From 2002-2004 he read for an MPhil degree in Russian and East European Studies at St. Antony’s College Oxford. After finishing with distinction, Tejada was accepted to a doctoral program at the University of Oxford where he continues focusing on Bulgaria. He lives with his wife Denitsa in Oxford, Texas and Bulgaria.



The Foreword Author:

Richard J. Crampton is Professor of East European History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St. Edmund Hall Oxford.