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class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>Chairman of the Communist Party of Bulgaria</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Chairman_of_the_Communist_Party_of_Bulgaria-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-General_Secretaries_of_the_Bulgarian_Communist_Party_(1948–1990)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#General_Secretaries_of_the_Bulgarian_Communist_Party_(1948–1990)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>General Secretaries of the Bulgarian Communist Party (1948–1990)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-General_Secretaries_of_the_Bulgarian_Communist_Party_(1948–1990)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Chairmen_of_the_Bulgarian_Communist_Party_(1990)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Chairmen_of_the_Bulgarian_Communist_Party_(1990)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3</span> <span>Chairmen of the Bulgarian Communist Party (1990)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Chairmen_of_the_Bulgarian_Communist_Party_(1990)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Organizational_structure" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Organizational_structure"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Organizational structure</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Organizational_structure-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Organizational structure subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Organizational_structure-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Party_congresses" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Party_congresses"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1</span> <span>Party congresses</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Party_congresses-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Central_Committee" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Central_Committee"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>Central Committee</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Central_Committee-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span 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data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%8A%D0%BB%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Българска комунистическа партия – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Българска комунистическа партия" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partit_Comunista_B%C3%BAlgar" title="Partit Comunista Búlgar – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Partit Comunista Búlgar" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulharsk%C3%A1_komunistick%C3%A1_strana" title="Bulharská komunistická strana – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Bulharská komunistická strana" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarische_Kommunistische_Partei" title="Bulgarische Kommunistische Partei – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Bulgarische Kommunistische Partei" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaaria_Kommunistlik_Partei" title="Bulgaaria Kommunistlik Partei – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Bulgaaria Kommunistlik Partei" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BD%CE%B9%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C_%CE%9A%CF%8C%CE%BC%CE%BC%CE%B1_%CE%92%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BB%CE%B3%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%B1%CF%82" title="Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Βουλγαρίας – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Βουλγαρίας" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partido_Comunista_B%C3%BAlgaro" title="Partido Comunista Búlgaro – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Partido Comunista Búlgaro" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parti_communiste_bulgare" title="Parti communiste bulgare – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Parti communiste bulgare" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partido_Comunista_de_Bulgaria" title="Partido Comunista de Bulgaria – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Partido Comunista de Bulgaria" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B6%88%EA%B0%80%EB%A6%AC%EC%95%84_%EA%B3%B5%EC%82%B0%EB%8B%B9" title="불가리아 공산당 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="불가리아 공산당" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partai_Komunis_Bulgaria" title="Partai Komunis Bulgaria – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Partai Komunis Bulgaria" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partito_Comunista_Bulgaro" title="Partito Comunista Bulgaro – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Partito Comunista Bulgaro" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%9C%D7%92%D7%94_%D7%94%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%99%D7%AA_%D7%A9%D7%9C_%D7%91%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94" title="המפלגה הקומוניסטית של בולגריה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="המפלגה הקומוניסטית של בולגריה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Part%C3%A9_Komunis_Bulgaria" title="Parté Komunis Bulgaria – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Parté Komunis Bulgaria" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-krc mw-list-item"><a href="https://krc.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Болгар коммунист партия – Karachay-Balkar" lang="krc" hreflang="krc" data-title="Болгар коммунист партия" data-language-autonym="Къарачай-малкъар" data-language-local-name="Karachay-Balkar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Къарачай-малкъар</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%91%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9A%E1%83%92%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98_%E1%83%99%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9B%E1%83%A3%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A2%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98_%E1%83%9E%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A2%E1%83%98%E1%83%90" title="ბულგარული კომუნისტური პარტია – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ბულგარული კომუნისტური პარტია" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulg%C4%81rijas_Komunistisk%C4%81_partija" title="Bulgārijas Komunistiskā partija – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Bulgārijas Komunistiskā partija" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolg%C3%A1r_Kommunista_P%C3%A1rt" title="Bolgár Kommunista Párt – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Bolgár Kommunista Párt" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0" title="Бугарска комунистичка партија – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Бугарска комунистичка партија" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaarse_Communistische_Partij" title="Bulgaarse Communistische Partij – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Bulgaarse Communistische Partij" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AC%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E5%85%B1%E7%94%A3%E5%85%9A" title="ブルガリア共産党 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ブルガリア共産党" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarias_kommunistparti" title="Bulgarias kommunistparti – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Bulgarias kommunistparti" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bu%C5%82garska_Partia_Komunistyczna" title="Bułgarska Partia Komunistyczna – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Bułgarska Partia Komunistyczna" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partido_Comunista_B%C3%BAlgaro" title="Partido Comunista Búlgaro – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Partido Comunista Búlgaro" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partidul_Comunist_Bulgar" title="Partidul Comunist Bulgar – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Partidul Comunist Bulgar" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a 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padding-bottom:0.3em; border-top:2px solid #CC0000; border-bottom:2px solid #CC0000; line-height: 1;"><div class="fn org">Bulgarian Communist Party</div> <div style="font-size: 0.8em; padding-top:0.3em;" class="nickname">Българска комунистическа партия</div></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image logo" style="padding-top:.4em;padding-bottom:.3em;"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:LogoBKP.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/LogoBKP.svg/180px-LogoBKP.svg.png" decoding="async" width="180" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/LogoBKP.svg/270px-LogoBKP.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/LogoBKP.svg/360px-LogoBKP.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Abbreviation</th><td class="infobox-data nickname" style="line-height:1.3em;">BKP/БКП</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">General Secretary</th><td class="infobox-data agent" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Dimitar_Blagoev" title="Dimitar Blagoev">Dimitar Blagoev</a> (first)<br /><a href="/wiki/Aleksandar_Lilov" title="Aleksandar Lilov">Aleksandar Lilov</a> (last)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">28 May 1919</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Dissolved</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">3 April 1990<span class="noprint">; 34 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtend">3 April 1990</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Preceded by</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_Social_Democratic_Workers%27_Party_(Narrow_Socialists)" title="Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Narrow Socialists)">BSDWP (NS)</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Succeeded by</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_Socialist_Party" title="Bulgarian Socialist Party">Bulgarian Socialist Party</a><sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Largo,_Sofia" title="Largo, Sofia">Party House, Largo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sofia" title="Sofia">Sofia</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Newspaper</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><i><a href="/wiki/Rabotnichesko_Delo" class="mw-redirect" title="Rabotnichesko Delo">Rabotnichesko Delo</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-sws_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sws-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Youth_wing" title="Youth wing">Youth wing</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Dimitrov_Communist_Youth_Union" title="Dimitrov Communist Youth Union">Dimitrov Communist Youth Union</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Pioneer_movement" title="Pioneer movement">Pioneer wing</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Dimitrovist_Pioneer_Organization_%22Septemberists%22" title="Dimitrovist Pioneer Organization "Septemberists"">Dimitrovist Pioneer Organization</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Military" title="Military">Armed wing</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%91%D0%9A%D0%9F" class="extiw" title="bg:Военна организация на БКП">Military Organisation of the BCP</a> (1920–1925)<br /><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_People%27s_Army" title="Bulgarian People's Army">Bulgarian People's Army</a> (1944-1989)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">Membership</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">1,000,000 (1989 <abbr title="estimation">est.</abbr>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_ideologies" title="List of political ideologies">Ideology</a></th><td class="infobox-data category" 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class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Fatherland_Front_(Bulgaria)" title="Fatherland Front (Bulgaria)">Fatherland Front</a> (1942–1990)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/European_political_party" title="European political party">European affiliation</a></th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="/wiki/Balkan_Communist_Federation" class="mw-redirect" title="Balkan Communist Federation">Balkan Communist Federation</a> (1921–1939)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em;">International affiliation</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.3em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Comintern" class="mw-redirect" title="Comintern">Comintern</a> (1919–1943)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Cominform" title="Cominform">Cominform</a> 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ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-top:0.3em; border-top:2px solid #CC0000;"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Bulgaria" title="Politics of Bulgaria">Politics of Bulgaria</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Bulgaria" title="List of political parties in Bulgaria">Political parties</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Bulgaria" title="Elections in Bulgaria">Elections</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>Bulgarian Communist Party</b> (<a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_language" title="Bulgarian language">Bulgarian</a>: Българска комунистическа партия (БΚП), <a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Bulgarian" title="Romanization of Bulgarian">Romanised</a>: <i>Bŭlgarska komunisticheska partiya</i>; <b>BKP</b>) was the founding and <a href="/wiki/Ruling_party" title="Ruling party">ruling party</a> of the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Bulgaria" title="People's Republic of Bulgaria">People's Republic of Bulgaria</a> from 1946 until 1990, when the country ceased to be a <a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">socialist</a> <a href="/wiki/Satellite_state" title="Satellite state">satellite state</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>. The party had dominated the <a href="/wiki/Fatherland_Front_(Bulgaria)" title="Fatherland Front (Bulgaria)">Fatherland Front</a>, a coalition that took power in 1944, late in <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, after it led a <a href="/wiki/1944_Bulgarian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1944 Bulgarian coup d'état">coup against Bulgaria's tsarist regime</a> in conjunction with the <a href="/wiki/Red_Army" title="Red Army">Red Army</a>'s crossing of the border. It controlled its armed forces, the <a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_People%27s_Army" title="Bulgarian People's Army">Bulgarian People's Army</a>. </p><p>The BCP was organized on the basis of <a href="/wiki/Democratic_centralism" title="Democratic centralism">democratic centralism</a>, a principle introduced by the Russian Marxist scholar and leader <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin" title="Vladimir Lenin">Vladimir Lenin</a>, which entails democratic and open discussion on policy on the condition of unity in upholding the agreed-upon policies. The highest body of the BCP was the Party Congress, convened every fifth year. When the Party Congress was not in session, the Central Committee was the highest body, but since the body normally met only once a year, most duties and responsibilities were vested in the Politburo and its Standing Committee. The party's leader held the offices of General Secretary. </p><p>The BCP was committed to <a href="/wiki/Marxism-Leninism" class="mw-redirect" title="Marxism-Leninism">Marxism-Leninism</a>, an ideology based on the writings of the German philosopher <a href="/wiki/Karl_Marx" title="Karl Marx">Karl Marx</a> and of Lenin (from 1922 to 1953 as formulated by Soviet leader <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a>). In the 1960s, the BCP announced some economic reforms, which allowed the free sale of production that exceeded planned amounts. After Soviet Premier <a href="/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev" title="Mikhail Gorbachev">Mikhail Gorbachev</a> took power in 1985, the BCP underwent political and <a href="/wiki/Economic_liberalization" title="Economic liberalization">economic liberalization</a>, which promptly liquidated the party and dissolved the People's Republic of Bulgaria completely. After the end of the BCP, the party was renamed to the <a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_Socialist_Party" title="Bulgarian Socialist Party">Bulgarian Socialist Party</a> in 1990; though Bulgaria retained its socialist-era constitution until 1991 along with its <a href="/wiki/Warsaw_Pact" title="Warsaw Pact">Warsaw Pact</a> membership until its dissolution that same year. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bulgarian_Communist_Party&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Origins">Origins</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bulgarian_Communist_Party&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Origins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The party's origins lay in the <a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_Social_Democratic_Workers%27_Party_(Narrow_Socialists)" title="Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Narrow Socialists)">Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Narrow Socialists)</a> (<i>Tesni Sotsialisti</i>, "Narrow Socialists"), which was founded in 1903 after a split in the 10th Congress of the <a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_Social_Democratic_Workers%27_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party">Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The party's founding leader was <a href="/wiki/Dimitar_Blagoev" title="Dimitar Blagoev">Dimitar Blagoev</a>, who was the driving force behind the formation of the BSDWP in 1894. It comprised most of the hardline Marxists in the Social Democratic Workers' Party. The party opposed <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> and was sympathetic to the <a href="/wiki/October_Revolution" title="October Revolution">October Revolution</a> in <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>. Under Blagoev's leadership, the party applied to join the <a href="/wiki/Communist_International" title="Communist International">Communist International</a> upon its founding in 1919. Upon joining the Comintern the party was reorganised as the <b>Communist Party of Bulgaria</b>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Georgi_Dimitrov" title="Georgi Dimitrov">Georgi Dimitrov</a> was a member of the party's <a href="/wiki/Central_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Committee">Central Committee</a> from its inception in 1919 until his death in 1949, also serving as Bulgaria's leader from 1946. In 1938 the party merged with the Bulgarian Workers' Party and took the former party's name. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ruling_party">Ruling party</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bulgarian_Communist_Party&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Ruling party"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%91%D0%9A%D0%9F.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/%D0%91%D0%9A%D0%9F.jpg/220px-%D0%91%D0%9A%D0%9F.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="305" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/%D0%91%D0%9A%D0%9F.jpg/330px-%D0%91%D0%9A%D0%9F.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/%D0%91%D0%9A%D0%9F.jpg/440px-%D0%91%D0%9A%D0%9F.jpg 2x" data-file-width="851" data-file-height="1179" /></a><figcaption>Membership card to the BCP</figcaption></figure> <p>Following Dimitrov's sudden death, the party was led by <a href="/wiki/Valko_Chervenkov" title="Valko Chervenkov">Valko Chervenkov</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Stalinist" class="mw-redirect" title="Stalinist">Stalinist</a> who oversaw a number of party purges that met with <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a>'s approval. The party joined the <a href="/wiki/Cominform" title="Cominform">Cominform</a> at its inception in 1948 and conducted purges against suspected <a href="/wiki/Titoism" title="Titoism">Titoites</a> following the expulsion of the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Yugoslavia" class="mw-redirect" title="Communist Party of Yugoslavia">Communist Party of Yugoslavia</a> from the alliance. Suspected counter-revolutionaries were imprisoned. In 1948 the <a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_Social_Democratic_Workers_Party_(Broad_Socialists)" title="Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party (Broad Socialists)">Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party (Broad Socialists)</a> was forced to merge into the BKP, thus liquidating any left-wing alternative to the communists.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In March 1954, one year after <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a>'s death, Chervenkov was deposed.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>From 1954 until 1989 the party was led by <a href="/wiki/Todor_Zhivkov" title="Todor Zhivkov">Todor Zhivkov</a>, who was very supportive of the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> and remained close to its leadership after <a href="/wiki/Nikita_Khrushchev" title="Nikita Khrushchev">Nikita Khrushchev</a> was deposed by <a href="/wiki/Leonid_Brezhnev" title="Leonid Brezhnev">Leonid Brezhnev</a>. His rule led to relative political stability and an increase in living standards.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The demands for democratic reform which swept <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Europe" title="Eastern Europe">Eastern Europe</a> in 1989 led Zhivkov to resign. He was succeeded by a considerably more liberal Communist, <a href="/wiki/Petar_Mladenov" title="Petar Mladenov">Petar Mladenov</a>. On 11 December Mladenov announced the party was giving up its guaranteed right to rule. For all intents and purposes, this was the <a href="/wiki/Revolutions_of_1989" title="Revolutions of 1989">end of Communist rule in Bulgaria</a>, though it would be another month before the provision in the constitution enshrining the party's "leading role" was deleted.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Post-1990">Post-1990</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bulgarian_Communist_Party&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Post-1990"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The party moved in a more moderate direction, and by the spring of 1990 was no longer a <a href="/wiki/Marxism-Leninism" class="mw-redirect" title="Marxism-Leninism">Marxist-Leninist</a> party. That April, the party changed its name to the <a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_Socialist_Party" title="Bulgarian Socialist Party">Bulgarian Socialist Party</a> (BSP). A number of hardline Communists established several splinter parties with a small number of members. One of these parties, named <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Bulgaria" title="Communist Party of Bulgaria">Communist Party of Bulgaria</a> (<i>Komunisticeska Partija na Balgarija</i>), is led by <a href="/wiki/Aleksandar_Paunov" title="Aleksandar Paunov">Aleksandar Paunov</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Headquarters">Headquarters</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bulgarian_Communist_Party&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Headquarters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Party House (Партийния дом, <i>Partiyniya dom</i>) served as the headquarters of the Bulgarian Communist Party, located at <a href="/wiki/The_Largo" class="mw-redirect" title="The Largo">the Largo</a>. The Party House building was designed by a team under architect Petso Zlatev and was completed in 1955.<sup id="cite_ref-kiradzhiev_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kiradzhiev-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leaders">Leaders</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bulgarian_Communist_Party&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Leaders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chairman_of_the_Communist_Party_of_Bulgaria">Chairman of the Communist Party of Bulgaria</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bulgarian_Communist_Party&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Chairman of the Communist Party of Bulgaria"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; width:90%"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" width="35%">Chairman </th> <th colspan="3" width="40%">Term of office </th> <th rowspan="2" width="25%">Notes </th></tr> <tr> <th width="3%"><small>Nº</small> </th> <th><small>Portrait</small> </th> <th width="30%"><small>Name<br />(Born–Died)</small> </th> <th><small>Took office</small> </th> <th><small>Left office</small> </th> <th><small>Duration</small> </th></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#CC0000; color:white;">1 </th> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Dblagoev.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Dblagoev.jpg/60px-Dblagoev.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="79" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Dblagoev.jpg/90px-Dblagoev.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Dblagoev.jpg/120px-Dblagoev.jpg 2x" data-file-width="304" data-file-height="399" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Dimitar_Blagoev" title="Dimitar Blagoev">Dimitar Blagoev</a><small><br />(1856–1924)</small> </td> <td>1919 </td> <td>1924 </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#CC0000; color:white;">2 </th> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:V.kolarov.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/V.kolarov.jpg/60px-V.kolarov.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/V.kolarov.jpg/90px-V.kolarov.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/V.kolarov.jpg/120px-V.kolarov.jpg 2x" data-file-width="425" data-file-height="567" /></a></span> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Vasil_Kolarov" title="Vasil Kolarov">Vasil Kolarov</a><small><br />(1877–1950)</small> </td> <td>1924 </td> <td>1933 </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#CC0000; color:white;">3 </th> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Georgi_Dimitrov.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Georgi_Dimitrov.jpg/60px-Georgi_Dimitrov.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="77" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Georgi_Dimitrov.jpg/90px-Georgi_Dimitrov.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Georgi_Dimitrov.jpg/120px-Georgi_Dimitrov.jpg 2x" data-file-width="232" data-file-height="299" /></a></span> </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Georgi_Dimitrov" title="Georgi Dimitrov">Georgi Dimitrov</a></b><br /><small><span lang="bg" dir="ltr">Георги Димитров</span><br />(1882–1949)</small> </td> <td>1933 </td> <td>27 December 1948 </td> <td> </td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_Secretaries_of_the_Bulgarian_Communist_Party_(1948–1990)"><span id="General_Secretaries_of_the_Bulgarian_Communist_Party_.281948.E2.80.931990.29"></span>General Secretaries of the Bulgarian Communist Party (1948–1990)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bulgarian_Communist_Party&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: General Secretaries of the Bulgarian Communist Party (1948–1990)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; width:90%"> <tbody><tr> <th width="35%" colspan="3">General Secretary </th> <th width="40%" colspan="3">Term of office </th> <th width="25%" rowspan="2">Notes </th></tr> <tr> <th width="3%"><small>Nº</small> </th> <th><small>Portrait</small> </th> <th width="30%"><small>Name<br />(Born–Died)</small> </th> <th><small>Took office</small> </th> <th><small>Left office</small> </th> <th><small>Duration</small> </th></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#CC0000; color:white;">1 </th> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Georgi_Dimitrov.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Georgi_Dimitrov.jpg/60px-Georgi_Dimitrov.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="77" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Georgi_Dimitrov.jpg/90px-Georgi_Dimitrov.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Georgi_Dimitrov.jpg/120px-Georgi_Dimitrov.jpg 2x" data-file-width="232" data-file-height="299" /></a></span> </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Georgi_Dimitrov" title="Georgi Dimitrov">Georgi Dimitrov</a></b><br /><small><span lang="bg" dir="ltr">Георги Димитров</span><br />(1882–1949)</small> </td> <td>27 December 1948 </td> <td>2 July 1949 </td> <td>187 days </td> <td>Also Prime Minister (1946–1949) </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#CC0000; color:white;">2 </th> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Valko_Chervenkov.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Valko_Chervenkov.jpg/60px-Valko_Chervenkov.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Valko_Chervenkov.jpg/90px-Valko_Chervenkov.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Valko_Chervenkov.jpg/120px-Valko_Chervenkov.jpg 2x" data-file-width="221" data-file-height="331" /></a></span> </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Valko_Chervenkov" title="Valko Chervenkov">Valko Chervenkov</a></b><br /><small><span lang="bg" dir="ltr">Вълко Червенков</span><br />(1900–1980)</small> </td> <td>2 July 1949 </td> <td>4 March 1954 </td> <td>4 years, 245 days </td> <td>Also Prime Minister (1950–1955) </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#CC0000; color:white;">3 </th> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-B0115-0010-066,_Berlin,_VI._SED-Parteitag,_Warnke,_Shiwkow_-_Zhivkov.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-B0115-0010-066%2C_Berlin%2C_VI._SED-Parteitag%2C_Warnke%2C_Shiwkow_-_Zhivkov.jpg/60px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-B0115-0010-066%2C_Berlin%2C_VI._SED-Parteitag%2C_Warnke%2C_Shiwkow_-_Zhivkov.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="62" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-B0115-0010-066%2C_Berlin%2C_VI._SED-Parteitag%2C_Warnke%2C_Shiwkow_-_Zhivkov.jpg/90px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-B0115-0010-066%2C_Berlin%2C_VI._SED-Parteitag%2C_Warnke%2C_Shiwkow_-_Zhivkov.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-B0115-0010-066%2C_Berlin%2C_VI._SED-Parteitag%2C_Warnke%2C_Shiwkow_-_Zhivkov.jpg/120px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-B0115-0010-066%2C_Berlin%2C_VI._SED-Parteitag%2C_Warnke%2C_Shiwkow_-_Zhivkov.jpg 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="497" /></a></span> </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Todor_Zhivkov" title="Todor Zhivkov">Todor Zhivkov</a></b><br /><small><span lang="bg" dir="ltr">Тодор Живков</span><br />(1911–1998)</small> </td> <td>4 March 1954 </td> <td>10 November 1989 </td> <td>35 years, 251 days </td> <td>Also Prime Minister (1962–1971), and chairman of the Council of State (1971–1989) </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#CC0000; color:white;">4 </th> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Petar_Mladenov_1978_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Petar_Mladenov_1978_%28cropped%29.jpg/60px-Petar_Mladenov_1978_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="76" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Petar_Mladenov_1978_%28cropped%29.jpg/90px-Petar_Mladenov_1978_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Petar_Mladenov_1978_%28cropped%29.jpg/120px-Petar_Mladenov_1978_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="219" data-file-height="279" /></a></span> </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Petar_Mladenov" title="Petar Mladenov">Petar Mladenov</a></b><br /><small><span lang="bg" dir="ltr">Петър Младенов</span><br />(1936–2000)</small> </td> <td>10 November 1989 </td> <td>2 February 1990 </td> <td>84 days </td> <td>Also chairman of the Council of State (1989–1990) </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chairmen_of_the_Bulgarian_Communist_Party_(1990)"><span id="Chairmen_of_the_Bulgarian_Communist_Party_.281990.29"></span>Chairmen of the Bulgarian Communist Party (1990)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bulgarian_Communist_Party&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Chairmen of the Bulgarian Communist Party (1990)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; width:90%"> <tbody><tr> <th width="35%" colspan="3">Chairman </th> <th width="40%" colspan="3">Term of office </th> <th width="25%" rowspan="2">Notes </th></tr> <tr> <th width="3%"><small>Nº</small> </th> <th><small>Portrait</small> </th> <th width="30%"><small>Name<br />(Born–Died)</small> </th> <th><small>Took office</small> </th> <th><small>Left office</small> </th> <th><small>Duration</small> </th></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#CC0000; color:white;">1 </th> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Alexander_lilov.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Alexander_lilov.jpg/60px-Alexander_lilov.jpg" decoding="async" width="60" height="79" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Alexander_lilov.jpg/90px-Alexander_lilov.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Alexander_lilov.jpg/120px-Alexander_lilov.jpg 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="528" /></a></span> </td> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Aleksandar_Lilov" title="Aleksandar Lilov">Aleksandar Lilov</a></b><br /><small><span lang="bg" dir="ltr">Александър Лилов</span><br />(1933–2013)</small> </td> <td>2 February 1990 </td> <td>3 April 1990 </td> <td>60 days </td> <td>Also Member of the Parliament (1962–2001) </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Organizational_structure">Organizational structure</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bulgarian_Communist_Party&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Organizational structure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Museum_of_Sozart_Collage_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Museum_of_Sozart_Collage_1.jpg/200px-Museum_of_Sozart_Collage_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Museum_of_Sozart_Collage_1.jpg/300px-Museum_of_Sozart_Collage_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Museum_of_Sozart_Collage_1.jpg/400px-Museum_of_Sozart_Collage_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1900" data-file-height="759" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Sculpture" title="Sculpture">Sculptures</a> of the communist Bulgarian leaders in the <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Socialist_Art" title="Museum of Socialist Art">Museum of Socialist Art</a> in <a href="/wiki/Sofia" title="Sofia">Sofia</a>: <br /><a href="/wiki/Vasil_Kolarov" title="Vasil Kolarov">Vasil Kolarov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dimitar_Blagoev" title="Dimitar Blagoev">Dimitar Blagoev</a>, <a href="/wiki/Georgi_Dimitrov" title="Georgi Dimitrov">Georgi Dimitrov</a> and <a href="/wiki/Todor_Zhivkov" title="Todor Zhivkov">Todor Zhivkov</a>.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Party_congresses">Party congresses</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bulgarian_Communist_Party&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Party congresses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Congresses and national conferences adopt the program and statutes of the party, approve the accounts of the past periods, develop directives and decisions for further activity. 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Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Democratic_Party_of_Afghanistan" title="People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan">People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Socialist_Republic_of_Albania" title="People's Socialist Republic of Albania">Albania</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Party_of_Labour_of_Albania" title="Party of Labour of Albania">Party of Labour of Albania</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Angola" title="People's Republic of Angola">Angola</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><i><a href="/wiki/MPLA" title="MPLA">People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola</a></i>*</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Benin" title="People's Republic of Benin">Benin</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Revolutionary_Party_of_Benin" title="People's Revolutionary Party of Benin">People's Revolutionary Party of Benin</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Bulgaria" title="People's Republic of Bulgaria">Bulgaria</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bulgarian Communist Party</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Burkina_Faso" title="Burkina Faso">Burkina Faso</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/African_Independence_Party_(Burkina_Faso)" title="African Independence Party (Burkina Faso)">African Independence Party</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Cambodia" title="Cambodia">Cambodia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Kampuchea" title="Democratic Kampuchea">DK</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Kampuchea" title="Communist Party of Kampuchea">Communist Party of Kampuchea</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Kampuchea" title="People's Republic of Kampuchea">PRK</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><span class="wraplinks"><a href="/wiki/Cambodian_People%27s_Party" title="Cambodian People's Party">Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party</a></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Cape_Verde" title="Cape Verde">Cape Verde</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><span class="wraplinks"><a href="/wiki/African_Party_for_the_Independence_of_Cape_Verde" title="African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde">African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde</a></span>*</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i><a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><i><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party" title="Chinese Communist Party">Chinese Communist Party</a></i></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_the_Congo" title="People's Republic of the Congo">Congo</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><i><a href="/wiki/Congolese_Party_of_Labour" title="Congolese Party of Labour">Congolese Party of Labour</a></i>*</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td><td class="navbox-list" style="border-left:2px solid #fdfdfd;padding:0px;width:33%;"><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i><a href="/wiki/Cuba" title="Cuba">Cuba</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><i><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Cuba" title="Communist Party of Cuba">Communist Party of Cuba</a></i></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Czechoslovak_Socialist_Republic" title="Czechoslovak Socialist Republic">Czechoslovakia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Czechoslovakia" title="Communist Party of Czechoslovakia">Communist Party of Czechoslovakia</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/East_Germany" title="East Germany">East Germany</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Socialist_Unity_Party_of_Germany" title="Socialist Unity Party of Germany">Socialist Unity Party of Germany</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Democratic_Republic_of_Ethiopia" title="People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Derg" title="Derg">Derg</a> (<a href="/wiki/Commission_for_Organizing_the_Party_of_the_Working_People_of_Ethiopia" title="Commission for Organizing the Party of the Working People of Ethiopia">COPWE</a>, <a href="/wiki/Workers%27_Party_of_Ethiopia" title="Workers' Party of Ethiopia">Workers' Party of Ethiopia</a>)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Revolutionary_Government_(Grenada)" title="People's Revolutionary Government (Grenada)">Grenada</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/New_Jewel_Movement" title="New Jewel Movement">New Jewel Movement</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Guinea-Bissau" title="Guinea-Bissau">Guinea-Bissau</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><span class="wraplinks"><a href="/wiki/African_Party_for_the_Independence_of_Guinea_and_Cape_Verde" title="African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde">African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde</a></span>*</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_People%27s_Republic" title="Hungarian People's Republic">Hungary</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Working_People%27s_Party" title="Hungarian Working People's Party">Hungarian Working People's Party</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_Socialist_Workers%27_Party" title="Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party">Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party</a></li></ul></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i><a href="/wiki/Laos" title="Laos">Laos</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><i><a href="/wiki/Lao_People%27s_Revolutionary_Party" title="Lao People's Revolutionary Party">Lao People's Revolutionary Party</a></i></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_Madagascar" title="Democratic Republic of Madagascar">Madagascar</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Malagasy_Revolutionary_Party" title="Malagasy Revolutionary Party">Vanguard of the Malagasy Revolution</a>*</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Mongolian_People%27s_Republic" title="Mongolian People's Republic">Mongolia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Mongolian_People%27s_Party" title="Mongolian People's Party">Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party</a>*</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Mozambique" title="People's Republic of Mozambique">Mozambique</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><i><a href="/wiki/FRELIMO" title="FRELIMO">FRELIMO</a></i>*</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td><td class="navbox-list" style="border-left:2px solid #fdfdfd;padding:0px;width:33%;"><div> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i><a href="/wiki/North_Korea" title="North Korea">North Korea</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><i><a href="/wiki/Workers%27_Party_of_Korea" title="Workers' Party of Korea">Workers' Party of Korea</a></i></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Polish_People%27s_Republic" title="Polish People's Republic">Poland</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Polish_Workers%27_Party" title="Polish Workers' Party">Polish Workers' Party</a>, <a href="/wiki/Polish_United_Workers%27_Party" title="Polish United Workers' Party">Polish United Workers' Party</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Socialist_Republic_of_Romania" title="Socialist Republic of Romania">Romania</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Romanian_Communist_Party" title="Romanian Communist Party">Romanian Communist Party</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Tom%C3%A9_and_Pr%C3%ADncipe" title="São Tomé and Príncipe">São Tomé and Príncipe</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><span class="wraplinks"><a href="/wiki/Movement_for_the_Liberation_of_S%C3%A3o_Tom%C3%A9_and_Pr%C3%ADncipe/Social_Democratic_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Movement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe/Social Democratic Party">Movement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe</a></span>*</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/One-party_rule_in_Seychelles" title="One-party rule in Seychelles">Seychelles</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/United_Seychelles" title="United Seychelles">Seychelles People's Progressive Front</a>*</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Somali_Democratic_Republic" title="Somali Democratic Republic">Somalia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><a href="/wiki/Supreme_Revolutionary_Council_(Somalia)" title="Supreme Revolutionary Council (Somalia)">Supreme Revolutionary Council</a>, <a href="/wiki/Somali_Revolutionary_Socialist_Party" title="Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party">Somali Revolutionary Socialist 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