Christo Kabaktschiev

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Bust of Christo Kabaktschiev in Sofia

Christo Stefanow Kabaktschiew ( Bulgarian Христо Стефанов Кабакчиев , born January 2, 1878 in Galatz , Romania , † October 6, 1940 in Moscow ) was a Bulgarian politician and historian .

Life

In 1897 he joined the Bulgarian Social Democratic Labor Party . He studied medicine in Paris and then law in Geneva . From 1904 he worked as a lawyer in Sofia . From 1905 to 1928 he was a member of the central committee of his party. In 1910 he took over the position of editor-in-chief of the party newspaper Rabotnitscheski Westnik , which he carried out until 1923. From 1923 he was secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party . He was arrested on the eve of the September uprising in 1923 . Kabaktschiev was sentenced to twelve and a half years in prison, but was soon given amnesty . In 1927 he went to the Soviet Union and worked for the Bulgarian representation of the Comintern . He taught at the International Lenin School and the Communist Academy . From 1928 he worked at the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute and at the Institute for History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR .

Works

  • The founding of the Italian Communist Party , 1921
  • The Origin and Development of the Comintern , 1929

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