New Bulgarian History - the After-War Period of Bulgaria-1944-1989

The nowadays development of Bulgaria after the Second World War till today is full of complex and contradicting political, economic and cultural events. History has rich and various sources for them, that propose a possibility to give a sensible answer to many of the questions of our near past. Because of this small historic distance, the judgements have arguable character and have to be justified.

For the period 1944-1989 the Bulgarian publicist literature had different characteristics. This society is defined as “socialistic” or as “socialistic social organization” till the end of 1989, but then other opinions were found - “totalitarian community”, “governmental socialism”, and others. The most essential marks of that society are: the lack of political, ideological and economic pluralism; the dominion role of the communists’ party in society and the government; “the union of the judicial, executive and legislature authorities”; the combining of the party and governmental functions; the depersonalization of social organization; the dominion of the government property, the subordination of the national interests to the “international goals” of the communists’ movement; not considering the rights of citizens and go on. Despite of the totalitarian character of the political power in the decades pointed out there was a big economic growth, a social security was achieved, there was cultural progress.