От синдикализъм към политически инфантилизъм
From Unionism to Political Infantilism

Summary/Abstract: The elimination of the multiparty political system at the end of the 1940’s had a strong impact on all spheres of social life in Bulgaria. Its influence on the fate and the future development of the Bulgarian trade unions was especially marked and it left a profound imprint on each one of their actions. The process gained particular momentum in the late 1950’s when the April Plenum of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party was held and the specific features of the regime were formed: a regime based on the concept of the obligatory superiority of a sole party possessing unlimited influence and. authority which gradually took over the functions of all State and economic bodies and public organizations. The article studies the process by which the trade unions were deprived of their individuality and turned into an organization that followed the political line set by the Bulgarian Communist Party faithfully and obediently, it traces hack the origin, the development and the assertion of serious distortions in the character, the purposes and the nature of their activity.

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