The Bulgarian Communist Party (Balgarska Komunisticeska Partija) was the ruling party of the People's Republic of Bulgaria from 1946 until 1990 when it ceased to be a Communist state. The Bulgarian Communist Party had dominated the Fatherland Front coalition that took power in 1944, late in World War II, after it led a coup against Bulgaria's fascist government in conjunction with the Red Army's crossing the border. The party's origins lay in the Social Democratic and Labour Party of Bulgaria, known as the Tesni socialisti, which was founded in 1903 after a split in the Social-Democratic Party. The party's founding leader was Dimitâr Blagoev and its subsequent leaders included Georgi Dimitrov. The party opposed World War I, was sympathetic to the October Revolution in Russia and applied to join the Communist International upon its founding in 1919. Upon joining the Comintern the party was reorganised as the Communist Party of Bulgaria. Dimitrov was a member of the party's Central Committee from its inception until his death in 1949 also serving as Bulgaria's leader from 1946. Peoples Republic (sometimes Popular Republic) is a title that is often used by Marxist-Leninist governments to describe their state. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... This article is about the year. ... A Communist state is a term for a state governed by a single political party which declares its allegiance to the principles of Marxism-Leninism. ... Fatherland Front (FF) was originally a Bulgarian political resistance movement during World War II. The Zveno movement, the communist Bulgarian Workers Party, a wing of the Agrarian Union and the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party where part of the FF. It was soon dominated by the Bulgarian Communist Party. ... A coalition is an alliance between entities, during which they cooperate in joint action, each in their own self-interest. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Combatants Allied Powers Axis Powers Commanders {{{commander1}}} {{{commander2}}} Strength {{{strength1}}} {{{strength2}}} Casualties 17 million military deaths 7 million military deaths World War II, also known as the Second World War (sometimes WW2 or WWII), was a mid-20th century conflict that engulfed much of the globe and is accepted as... A coup détat, or simply a coup, is the sudden overthrow of a government, usually done by a small group that just replaces the top power figures. ... Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... The short forms Red Army and RKKA refer to the Workers and Peasants Red Army, (in Russian: Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия - Raboche-Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya), the armed forces first organised by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918. ... 1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Social democracy is a political ideology emerging in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from supporters of Marxism who believed that the transition to a socialist society could be achieved through democratic evolutionary rather than revolutionary means. ... Dimitâr Blagoev was a Bulgarian political leader. ... Georgi Dimitrov Georgi Mikhailov Dimitrov (Георги Димитров, also known as Georgij Mikhailovich Dimitrov) (June 18, 1882 - July 2, 1949) was a Bulgarian Communist leader. ... Combatants Entente Powers Central Powers Commanders {{{commander1}}} {{{commander2}}} Strength {{{strength1}}} {{{strength2}}} Casualties > 5 million military deaths > 3 million military deaths World War I, also known as the First World War and (before 1939) the Great War, the War of the Nations, War to End All Wars was a world conflict... The October Revolution, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, was the second phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, the first having been instigated by the events around the February Revolution. ... The first edition of Communist International, journal of the Comintern published in Moscow and Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg) in May 1919. ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 16th Central Committee meeting of the Communist Party of China Central Committee most commonly refers to the central executive unit of a communist party, whether ruling or non-ruling. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...

In 1938 the party merged with the Workers' Party to become the Bulgarian Workers Party. In 1948 the BWP merged with the Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party to become the Bulgarian Communist Party once again. 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Following Dimitrov's sudden death, the party was led by Vulko Chervenkov, a hard-line Stalinist who oversaw a number of party purges under Moscow's guidance. The party joined the Cominform at its inception in 1948 and conducted purges against suspected Titoites following the expulsion of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia from the alliance. Thousands of suspect party members and suspected counterrevolutionaries outside of the party were imprisoned. In March 1954, one year after Stalin's death, Chervenkov was deposed. Vulko Velev Chervenkov (September 6, 1900–October 21, 1980) was a Bulgarian communist politician. ... Stalinism is a brand of political theory, and the political and economic system implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union. ... In history and political science, to purge is to remove undesirable people from a government, political party, profession, or from community/society as a whole, usually by violent means. ... Moscow (Russian: Москва́, Moskva, IPA: â–¶ (help· info)) is the capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva. ... The Cominform (from Communist Information Bureau) is the common name for what was officially referred to as the Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers Parties. The Cominform was a Soviet dominated organization of Communist parties founded in September, 1947 at a conference of Communist party leaders in Szklarska Poreba... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Titoism is a term describing political ideology named after Yugoslav leader, Josip Broz Tito, primarily used to describe the schism between the Soviet Union and Socialist Yugoslavia after the Second World War (see Cominform) when the Communist Party of Yugoslavia refused to take further dictates from Moscow. ... SKJ flag in Serbo-Croat, with Cyrillic script SKJ flag in Serbo-Croat, with Latin script SKJ flag in Albanian SKJ flag in Hungarian SKJ flag in Italian SKJ flag in Macedonian SKJ flag in Slovenian The Communist Party of Yugoslavia (after 1952 the League of Communists of Yugoslavia) was... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Iosif (usually anglicized as Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), original name Ioseb Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვილი; see Other names section) (December 21, 1879[1] – March 5, 1953) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and leader of the Soviet Union. ...

From 1954 until 1989 the party was led by Todor Zhivkov who was staunchly supportive of the Soviet Union and remained close to its leadership after Nikita Khrushchev was deposed by Leonid Brezhnev. The demands for reform which swept Eastern Europe in 1989 forced Zhivkov's resignation and the party moved in a more moderate direction, abandoning Marxism-Leninism in 1990 and renaming itself the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP). 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Todor Zhivkov Todor Khristov Zhivkov (Cyrillic: Toдор XpиcÑ‚oв Живков; pronounced TO-dor KHRIS-tov ZHIF-kof) (September 7, 1911–August 5, 1998) was the Communist leader of Bulgaria from March 4, 1954 until November 10, 1989. ... Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchof (Khrushchev) (Russian: Ники́та Серге́евич Хрущёв â–¶ (help· info), April 17, 1894 â€“ September 11, 1971) was the leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin. ... Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev â–¶(?) (Russian: ) (December 19 [O.S. December 6] 1906 – November 10, 1982) was effective ruler of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982, though at first in partnership with others. ... Pre-1989 division between the West (grey) and Eastern Bloc (orange) superimposed on current national boundaries: Russia (dark orange), other countries of the former USSR (medium orange) and other former communist regimes (light orange). ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Vladimir Lenin in 1920 Leninism is a political and economic theory which builds upon Marxism; it is a branch of Marxism (and it has been the dominant branch of Marxism in the world since the 1920s). ... This article is about the year. ... The Bulgarian Socialist Party (Bulgarian: Balgarska Socialističeska Partija or Българска социалистическа партия) (BSP or БСП) is a political party in Bulgaria and successor to the Bulgarian Communist Party. ...

A number of old Communists established several splinter parties with an insignificant number of members. One of these parties named Communist Party of Bulgaria (Komunisticeska Partija na Balgarija) is nowadays a party led by Alexander Paunov. It is part of the Coalition for Bulgaria, an alliance led by the Bulgarian Socialist Party. The coalition won in the 2001 elections 17.1 % of the popular vote and 48 out of 240 seats. At the last legislative elections, 25 june 2005, the Coalition won 34.2% of the popular vote and 82 out of 240 seats. Alexander Paunov born on (June 19, 1949), is a Bulgarian politician, member of the Bulgarian National Assembly, and the leader of the current Bulgarian Communist Party. ... The Coalition for Bulgaria (Koalicija za Balgarija) is a alliance in Bulgaria, led by the Bulgarian Socialist Party. ... The Bulgarian Socialist Party (Bulgarian: Balgarska Socialističeska Partija or Българска социалистическа партия) (BSP or БСП) is a political party in Bulgaria and successor to the Bulgarian Communist Party. ... A legislature is a governmental deliberative body with the power to adopt laws. ... Elections in Bulgaria gives information on election and election results in Bulgaria. ...

See also

• Communist Bulgaria