Comunişti din România în arhiva Cominternului:Boris Ştefanov
Comunists from Romania in the Archive of the Comintern: Boris Ștefanov’s Case

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to bring into the light Boris Ștefanov’s biography. Born in 1883, at Kotel Bulgaria, Ștefanov was the fifth Communist Party of Romania’s Secretary, leading the Party from 1934 to 1940. His political engagement had started in “Narrow Socialists” Party when the Cadrilater, the native Ștefanov’s land, was ceded to Romania, in 1913. After that, he joined the Romanian Socialist Party, on whose list he was elected in 1920 as a member of the Romanian Parliament. In the early 20thies, he lived and worked in Romania, but in Bulgaria, Austria and Soviet Union also. Arrested in 1926, he was sentenced to eight years in prison. He left Romania in 1933 and had never came back. Some parts of Ștefanov’s biography can be known from Romanian archives, especially those related to his carrier in the Communist Party of Romania. His Bulgarian background, and also his political carrier as a functionary in the apparatus of Comintern are hard to be known just appealing to Romanian sources. This paper had two parts. The first one creates a short portrait of Boris Ștefanov, based on both archival and secondary sources. The second one is an autobiography written by Ștefanov in 1936, when he was in Prague, holding the highest dignity among Romanian communists. The document published above is important in the information that provide. It is also an evaluation of a professional revolutionary’s life, as it was seen by himself.

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