Epoha

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Epoha (Bulgarian: Епоха, 'Epoch') was a Bulgarian daily newspaper, published from Sofia between June 25, 1922 and December 29, 1925.[1][2] Epoha functioned as a mouthpiece of the rightist tendency within the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party.[3]

Grigor Cheshmedzhiev served as the editor of Epoha.[4][5] He edited the newspaper along with Krastyo Pastuhov.[6][7][5] The newspaper was owned by Nikolai Donchev, a Bulgarian translator, literary critic and scholar.[4]

Epoha ran a defamatory campaign against the Bulgarian Communist Party and the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union.[1] The Agrarian National Union government banned the newspaper on May 8, 1923.[8] Epoha resumed publication after the June 9, 1923 coup d'etat (which Cheshmedzhiev and Pashutov celebrated), which issues coming out after June 11, 1923.[8][9] The front page of the June 11, 1923 carried the message 'Christ has resurrected!" (in reference to the June 9 coup d'etat).[9] After the coup Epoha stepped up its attacks on the Communist Party and the Agrarian National Union.[1]

Epoha was closed down in December 1925, following a decision of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party.[8]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Septemvriĭskoto antifashistko vŭstanie 1923: Dok. i materiali. T. 1-. Partizdat. 1973. p. 473.
  2. ^ Georgi Dimitrov (1988). Sŭchinenii︠a︡. Partizdat. p. 695.
  3. ^ Kowalski, Werner. Geschichte der Sozialistischen Arbeiter-Internationale, (1923–1940). Berlin: Dt. Verl. d. Wissenschaften, 1985. P. 288.
  4. ^ a b Literaturna misŭl: spisanie za estetika, literaturna istorii͡a i kritida. 1993. p. 135.
  5. ^ a b Istoricheski pregled. Bŭlgarsko istorichesko druzhestvo. 1992. p. 105.
  6. ^ Milen Kumanov (1991). Politicheski partii organizat͡s͡ii i dvizhenii͡a͡ v Bŭlgarii͡a͡ i tekhnite lideri, 1879-1949: kratŭk istoricheski spravochnik. Prosveta. p. 102.
  7. ^ Георги Димитров (1978). В огъня на битките: публицистика. Партиздат. p. 326.
  8. ^ a b c Grigor Cheshmedzhiev; Boi︠a︡n Grigorov; Radoslav Popov; Milen Kumanov (1988). Politicheski spomeni. Izd-vo na Otechestvenii︠a︡ front. p. 515.
  9. ^ a b Georgi Radev; Klara Pinkas; Institut po istorii︠a︡ na Bŭlgarskata komunisticheska partii︠a︡ (1986). Vŭznikvane, razvitie i zalez na oporti︠u︡nizma v bŭlgarskoto rabotnichesko dvizhenie, 1891/1948. Partizdat. p. 305.