Country Report - Bulgaria - Crimes committed by the communist regime in Bulgaria
Country Report - Bulgaria - Crimes committed by the communist regime in Bulgaria

Author(s): Vasil Kadrinov, Dinyu Sharlanov, Venelin I. Ganev
Subject(s): Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Government/Political systems, Criminology, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism
Published by: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů
Summary/Abstract: The Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) is responsible for the state governance in Bulgaria from 1944 to 1989 and for the establishment of the totalitarian communist regime in the country. The BCP seized power on 9 September 1944 through a coup supported by a foreign country – the Soviet Union, which had declared war on Bulgaria. Founded in 1903 after a split in the Social-Democratic Party, BCP had failed to assert itself as a significant power in Bulgarian politics. Its efforts to generate big electoral support were unsuccessful, and its parliamentary influence never matched that of the agrarian and social-democratic parties in the country.

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