Bulgarian Communist Party

The Bulgarian Communist Party (Bulgarian: Българска Комунистическа Партия; shortened BCP) was the ruling political party in Bulgaria from 1946 until 1990.

Last leader	Alexander Lilov
Succeeded by	Bulgarian Socialist Party
Ideology	Communism Marxism-Leninism
Political position	Far-left
Party flag

The party led a coup against the tsarist government in 1944.

Todor Zhivkov was leader of the party and Bulgaria from 1954 until 1989. He was the longest-serving leader of any Eastern Bloc nation. The party's first leader was Dimitar Blagoev.

On 11 December 1989, leader Petar Mladenov announced that the party was giving up its guaranteed right to rule. In 1990, the party became much more moderate and was no longer a communist party. In April 1990, the party changed its name to the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP).

Bulgarian Communist Party Media

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  Membership card to the Bulgarian Communist Party, 1980.

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  Dblagoev

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  Васил Коларов (1877-1950)*Template:Мвнр

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  Georgi Dimitrov (1882-1949)

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  Georgi Dimitrov (1882-1949)

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  Pártelit. Balról a második előtte Vlko Cservenkov, a Bolgár Kommunista Párt főtitkára, miniszterelnök.

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  Bundesarchiv Bild 183-B0115-0010-066, Berlin, VI. SED-Parteitag, Warnke, Shiwkow - Zhivkov

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  Petar Mladenov 1978 (cropped)

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  Alexander Vassilev Petrovski - Lilov was a scientist and politician from the Bulgarian Communist Party and later from the successor Bulgarian Socialist Party. In 1977-1983, he was the informal first deputy leader of Todor Zhivkov and the second person in the hierarchy of the totalitarian regime.

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  Sculptures of the communist Bulgarian leaders in the Museum of Socialist Art in Sofia: Vasil Kolarov, Dimitar Blagoev, Georgi Dimitrov and Todor Zhivkov.