The book made a strong impression on the imagination of many Bulgarian intellectuals, and shaped their image of America.
Among the initiators, principals and teachers at the high school were noted Bulgarian intellectuals, scientists, and public figures of the Bulgarian revolutionary movement and politics of the early 20th century.
In 1918, during the First World War, Binding left Germany to lecture German soldiers in Macedonia and Bulgarian intellectuals in Sofia.
Some Bulgarian intellectuals criticized what they said was censorship and an encroachment upon the independence of scholarship and a petition was started in protest against the campaign.
Moreover, the Turkish community received the solidarity of Bulgarian intellectuals and opponents of the regime.
A group of Bulgarian intellectuals left the ruling Communist Party today and founded the Alternative Socialist Party.
The September Uprising and the atrocities during its suppression provoked a powerful reaction among the Bulgarian intellectuals of the time.
Bulgarian intellectuals have modified the concept of Nesting Orientalisms into the reversed concept of Nesting Occidentalisms.
Others became later prominent Bulgarian intellectuals and Andrey Lyapchev even prime minister of Bulgaria.
Some Bulgarian intellectuals argued that a monument of an unknown soldier is unacceptable since it would imply that the names of the soldiers have been forgotten.