Единадесетият конгрес на БКП, Юлският пленум на нейния Централен комитет и етнографската наука
The Eleventh Congress of the Bulgarian Communist Party and its Central Committee and Ethnographic Science

Summary/Abstract: The Congresses of the Bulgarian Communist Party under the conditions of socialism have always been of great importance for the development of the scientific front in the People's Republic of Bulgaria. The Eleventh Congress of the Party, which assigned a foremost and leading place to this front in the processes connected with implementing the policy of a decisive increase in the effectiveness and quality of all productive and creative activities, is to play a particularly important role in this respect. The Congress more particularly formulated for the scientific front a number of requirements, which also refer with full force to the development of ethnographic science: the science is to link itself most closely with the concrete needs of production and the socio-economic development of the country, rapidly and effectively to apply the scientific results, to direct science to purposefully selected complex themes, to develop and intensify joint research activity with the scholars of the USSR and the other socialist countries, to pass from an extensive to an intensive development of scientific activity, and essentially to improve the selection and development of scientific personnel, etc. The Congress formulations on the socialist way of life are also of great importance for ethnography. They will mobilize and enrich the creative activity of studying contemporary life. A Plenum of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party was held early in July, 1976; it concretized the decisions of the Eleventh Congress of the Bulgarian Communist Party, setting itself the aim of causing a turnround in the political and sociopsychological set up in the course of realizing them. The essence of the July decisions of the Party is reduced to the necessity of improving the entire work of all leading bodies, of the working and the creative groups, in order to achieve maximal savings of the means, reserves and forces to achieve the greatest effectiveness and high quality in their activity and production. The decisions of the Plenum stirred the whole country, and also placed important demands before the Bulgarian ethnographers: full utilization of the inner resources of their creative collective, real irreconcilability towards shortcomings, an honest attitude to obligations and shortcomings, intensification of criticism and a struggle of opinions, etc. The Congress documents and July decisions of the Bulgarian Communist Party will undoubtedly have a profound impact upon the whole scientific front in Bulgaria and particularly on the development of Bulgarian ethnography.

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