   the bulgarian communist party (bcp) (ÐÑÐ»Ð³Ð°ÑÑÐºÐ° ÐÐ¾Ð¼ÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ° ÐÐ°ÑÑÐ¸Ñ / balgarska komunisticheska partiya / ÐÐÐ/bkp) was the communist and marxist-leninist ruling party of the people's republic of bulgaria from 1946 until 1989 when the country ceased to be a communist state. the bulgarian communist party had dominated the fatherland front coalition that took power in 1944, late in world war ii, after it led a coup against bulgaria's tsarist government in conjunction with the red army's crossing the border. the party's origins lay in the bulgarian social democratic workers' party, known as the tesnyatsi (tesni socialisti, "narrow socialists"), which was founded in 1903 after a split in the 10th congress of the bulgarian social democratic workers' party.bulgarian communist party - an article translated from the great soviet encyclopedia (1979). taken from the free dictionary by farlex. the party's founding leader was dimitar blagoev, who had been a founding member of the bsdwp in 1894. the party opposed world war i and was sympathetic to the october revolution in russia. under blagoev's leadership, the party applied to join the communist international upon its founding in 1919. upon joining the comintern the party was reorganised as the communist party of bulgaria. georgi dimitrov was a member of the party's central committee 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 workers' party to become the bulgarian workers' party. in 1948 the bwp merged with the bulgarian social democratic workers' party to become the bulgarian communist party once again. following dimitrov
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