Alexandar Lilow

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Alexandar Wassilew Lilow ( Bulgarian Александър Василев Лилов ; born August 31, 1933 in Granitschak ; † July 20, 2013 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian politician .

Life

Lilow was from 1963 to 1966 secretary of the Central Committee of the Dimitrov Communist Youth Association. In 1970 he became head of the Art and Culture Department at the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party . He held the function until 1972. From 1972 to 1983 he was a member and secretary of the party's central committee. From 1974 he was a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee. In 1976 he became a member of the Bulgarian State Council .

Lilow is said to have been in a relationship with Lyudmila Schiwkowa , the daughter of the Bulgarian head of state Todor Schiwkow , who died in 1981 under unknown circumstances.

He was considered the chief ideologist under Todor Zhivkov, but later distanced himself from his authoritarian regime and lost his position in the State Council in 1986. When 300,000 people of Turkic origin had to leave Bulgaria in 1989, he demanded that human rights be observed . After the political upheaval in 1989, however, from February 1990 to 1991 he was chairman of the Bulgarian Socialist Party , the successor to the Bulgarian Communist Party.

Works (selection)

  • Real socialism - concrete historical materialization of scientific socialism , 1979
  • Europe before the choice of a new alternative , 1989

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Detlev Preuße, Upheaval from Below: The Self-Liberation of Central and Eastern Europe and the End of the Soviet Union , Springer-Verlag, 2014, ISBN 9783658049720 , page 615
  2. ↑ Detlev Preuße, Upheaval from Below: The Self-Liberation of Central and Eastern Europe and the End of the Soviet Union , Springer-Verlag, 2014, ISBN 9783658049720 , page 615
  3. ↑ Johannes Grotzky, Foreign Neighbors: The East and Southeast of Europe at the End of the 20th Century , Books on Demand, 2012, ISBN 9783844890518 , page 95
personal data
SURNAME Lilow, Alexandar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lilow, Alexandar Wassilew (full name); Лилов, Александър Василев (Bulgarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Granitschak
DATE OF DEATH 20th July 2013
Place of death Sofia