Blagoev biography

He was born in the Bulgarian village in Aegean Macedonia Zagorichan now on the territory of Greece in the family of a peasant-bagel. B - studied in Istanbul, then in Bulgaria. In the youth years, it is not known how and where, he participated in the April uprising and a further liberation war against the Ottoman Empire.

For some time he worked in a tobacco warehouse in Svishtov, then he went to continue education in the Russian Empire. He graduated from the Odessa real school. He studied at St. Petersburg University, where through student organizations he came into a revolutionary movement. Initially, he became closer to the “popular will” and actively joined its work, but soon moved away from the people's volumes and took up the study of Marxist theory, in particular, the “capital” of Marx.

In December, he organized one of the first Marxist circles in Russia, known as the Blagovo Group, a self-name-“Party of Russian Social Democrats”. She founded 15 working circles and issued two issues of the first Social Democratic publication in Russia-the illegal newspaper "Worker". After the defeat of the Blagovo Group, the police in March was arrested for creating an underground printing house, put to prison, and later sent to his homeland to Bulgaria.

He spoke with the brochure “Our Apostles”, in which he remained a democratic and revolutionary interpretation of the heritage of Christ Bothev and Lyuben Karavelov. In the book “What is socialism and does it have the ground with us? In, during the discussion of the “party members”, supporters of the creation of the party and “unionists” who considered the transition to party form premature Blagov supported the first and became the main organizer of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party, while its opponents took shape in the Bulgarian Social Democratic Union of the BSDS.

After the unification of the BSDP with the BSDS, the contradictions between the radical and reformist to which, in those years, adjoined, in particular, Krystau, Rakovsky by the wing of the party, were manifested in the Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party. When, after the demarcation in the RSDLP on the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks in relation to the organizational structure of the party, in the Bulgarian Social-Democratic Party, a similar split into the “crowded” and “wide”, Blagoev led the Bulgarian Worker Social-Democratic Party of Close Socialists.

At the same time, despite the strong influence of Russian social democracy on processes in Bulgaria, it was not so unambiguous: so when he referred to Blagos to Lenin's work “What to do? Between and, with interruptions, Blagoev led the publication of the magazine “New Time” - the theoretical body at first of the BRSDP, and then close socialists - and placed more articles in it.

In addition, he was engaged in publicist and publishing in a number of party newspapers, including “employee”, “employee messenger” and “socialist”. Blagoev translated into Bulgarian a large number of works of Marx and Engels, including the 1st volume of “capital”, and was the author of a number of research on Marxist philosophy, history, political economy, aesthetics and Bulgarian literature.

One of the largest - the monograph “from the history of socialism in Bulgaria” - laid the foundation for the Bulgarian Marxist historiography. For about 8 years, Blagoev devoted to pedagogical work, teaching Plovdiv in the male gymnasium, he was the editor Dimiter Blagoev photography “Vestnik on the teacher at the teacher of friendliness”, and compiled the program of the Bulgarian Marxist Party for Education.

With the participation of Blagov, the general working syndicate union was also created.