The Temporary representation of the former United Internal Revolutionary Organization (

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:''Временно представителство на бившата Обединена Вътрешна Революционна Организация'') was a short-lasted organization founded by former members of the

Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization The Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO; bg, Вътрешна Македонска Революционна Организация (ВМРО), translit=Vatrešna Makedonska Revoljucionna Organizacija (VMRO); mk, Внатр� ...

, created in 1919 on the wake of the Paris Peace Conference after the

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in Sofia. The left wing of IMARO, disturbed by the organization's increasing domination by the pro-

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''Vrhovists'', founded this Organization, aimed to avoid the partitition of the

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. It included

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Petar Atsev Petar Atsev ( bg, Петър Ацев) was a Bulgarian revolutionary, a voyvoda of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO) for the region of Prilep. Biography Petar Atsev was born in 1877 in the village of Oreovec ...

, Hristo Tatartchev,

Petar Pop Arsov Petar Pop-Arsov ( bg, Петър Попарсов, mk, Петар Поп Арсов) originally spelled in older Bulgarian orthography: ''Петъръ попъ Арсовъ''; (14 August 1868 – 1 January 1941) was a Bulgarian educator and ...

Mihail Gerdzhikov } Mihail Gerdzhikov ( bg, Михаил Герджиков; 1877–1947) was a Bulgarian revolutionary and anarchist. Biography He was born in Plovdiv, then in the Ottoman Empire, in 1877. He studied at the French College in Plovdiv, where ...

etc. The Organization issued a memorandum and send it to the representatives of the

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on the Peace conference in Paris. There the Temporary representation advocated for autonomy of Macedonia as a part of a future

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. It threatened the autonomous Macedonia as state populated by different people as Bulgarians, Greeks, Serbs, Turks, Vlahs, etc. In the parliamentary and local elections of 1919, the Temporary representation supported the candidates of the Bulgarian Communist Party. The BCP sought to take the Organization over, in fact to transform it into its own section. Following the signing of the

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and the partition of Macedonia, the activity of the Temporary representation faded. In 1920 it was dissolved and most from its members joined the Bulgarian Emigrant Communist Union.Macedonia and the Macedonians: a history, Andrew Rossos, Hoover Press, 2008
Chapter 10.
/ref> Other members joined a number of different leftist organizations. They all were opposed to the restoration of IMARO as a Bulgarian nationalist organization under the name IMRO, headed by

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. Subsequently, most of them were killed in the strife among the Macedonian revolutionaries. At least until the middle of the 1920s, the former IMRO-left was not a united movement, unlike the right wing. In 1925 the most of its survivors joined the

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* Гребенаров, Александър, Легални и тайни организации на македонските бежанци в България (1918–1947), МНИ, София, 2006 г.,470 с. * The Communist party of Bulgaria: origins and development, 1883–1936, Joseph Rothschild, AMS Press, 1972, , p. 117.
„Националноосвободителната борба в Македония, 1919 - 1941 г.“, Колектив, Македонски Научен Институт.

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