Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers' Party (Narrow Socialists) ( bg, Българска работническа социалдемократическа партия (тесни социалисти), translit=Balgarska rabotnicheska sotsialdemokraticheska partia (tesni sotsialisti)) was a Marxist, socialist political party in Bulgaria. The party's origins lays in 1903, after a split at the 10th Congress of the

Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party The Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party ( bg, Българска работническа социалдемократическа партия, translit=Bŭlgarska rabotnicheska sotsialdemokraticheska partiya; BRSDP) was a Bulgarian leftis ...

.Bulgarian Communist Party – an article translated from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). Taken from the Free dictionary by Farlex.
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Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party (Broad Socialists) The Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party (Broad Socialists) ( bg, Българска работническа социалдемократическа партия (широки социалисти), ''Balgarska rabotnicheska sotsialdemokra ...

. The party's leader was

Dimitar Blagoev Dimitar Blagoev Nikolov (, mk, Димитар Благоев Николов; 14 June 1856 – 7 May 1924) was a Bulgarian political leader and philosopher. He was the founder of the Bulgarian left-wing political movement and of the first social- ...

, the driving force behind the formation of the BSDWP in 1894. It comprised most of the hardline Marxists in the Workers' Social Democratic Party, which followed the doctrine of

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. This entailed concentrating on building the party amongst the

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rather than creating a broader political framework which would also appeal to the

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. One feature of this was their proposal to confiscate all

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, which inhibited their electoral success. In 1909 the

Social Democratic Union 'Proletarian' Social Democratic Union 'Proletarian' was a political party organization in Bulgaria from 1906 until 1908. The organization was led by Dimitar Blagoev, who had been expelled from the Narrow Socialists for being an "anarcho-liberal". 'Proletarian' ...

, which had been expelled from the Narrow Socialists, merged into the Broad Socialist party. At the

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, where the unraveling of the coalition between

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and reformist socialists in the

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began, the party supported the so-called

Zimmerwald Left The Zimmerwald Conference was held in Zimmerwald, Switzerland, from September 5 to 8, 1915. It was the first of three international socialist conferences convened by anti-militarist socialist parties from countries that were originally neutral d ...

. It opposed

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and was sympathetic to the

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in Russia. Under the influence of the

Bolsheviks The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...

the ''narrow socialists'' accepted the ideas of

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. Under Blagoev's leadership, the party applied to join the

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in 1919. Upon joining the Comintern the party was reorganised as the ''

Bulgarian Communist Party The Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP; bg, Българска Комунистическа Партия (БКП), Balgarska komunisticheska partiya (BKP)) was the founding and ruling party of the People's Republic of Bulgaria from 1946 until 198 ...

''.

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