EVALUATION OF THE POLITICAL ACTIVITIES OF THE BULGARIAN SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC PARTY DURING THE OTTOMAN PERIOD IN THE LIGHT OF NEW ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS

Abstract

In the light of new archival documents, this article aims to evaluate the political activities of the Bulgarian Social-Democratic Party, the public meetings it organized, the declarations it prepared, the committee activities it carried out, and the intellectual goals it wanted to achieve in the early 20th century. The party was established in a highly cosmo-political environment. The Bulgarian Social-Democratic Party, which emerged at the end of the 19th century on the basis of social-democratic ideas, took part in many important political and social actions in Bulgaria and Western Thrace during this turbulent period. The party attempted to organize Bulgarian workers, to encourage them to migrate into America, to hold public meetings against the Bulgarian Government, to carry out propaganda actions, to perform propaganda activities, to prepare provocative declarations, to experience hot conflicts with the government, and to spread social-democratic ideas by gaining supporters. In the light of this review and Ottoman archival documents, this study tries to analyze the actions of the Bulgarian Social-Democratic Party.