A file containing documents concerning art and culture in Bulgaria. Issues covered in the file include the Soviet influence on Bulgarian artistic trends; speeches made at a meeting of the Union of Bulgarian Artists; and the views of Todor Zhivkov, the Bulgarian leader, about the influence of Western ideas and the danger of their impact on the development of communism. Other matters covered include an article in the Bulgarian press discussing Freud's influence on developments in Western literature and films; a translation of a song published in a Bulgarian satirical review, which criticised the Bulgarian government; and the impact of criticisms of Western standards and traditions by Zhivkov on nightlife and entertainment in Bulgaria. The file also contains a letter from the British legation in Sofia reporting on articles in the Bulgarian press that criticised "bourgeois ideological influences" on Bulgarian literature and art, and the failure of Bulgarian art to follow Marxist-Leninist principles.
- Collection ID
- FO371
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Department Reference
- File 1751
- Document Type
- Correspondence Memoranda Reports
- File Reference
- FO 371/171735
- Identifier
- 10.1080/cwee.fo371.171735
- Key Events
- Expulsion of Anton Yugov and Valko Chervenkov from the Bulgarian Communist Party Twenty-Second Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Note
- The following items have been removed from this file due to copyright restrictions:Improvisatsii, 1 June 1963, Ditty of the Lighthouse Keepers;Rabotnichesko Delo, 10 March 1963, The Aesthetic Criterion of the People;Rabotnichesko Delo, 24 April 1963, Communist ideology is a supreme principle of our art and literature;Studentska Tribuna, 16 April 1963, Combination of Sex and Egotism;Zemedelsko zname, 16 October 1963, Party leadership is a guarantee for progress in literature.
- Pages
- 68
- Persons Discussed
- Anthony Lincoln Heath Mason János Kádár Nikita Khrushchev Radenko Grigorov Todor Zhivkov
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Subject Countries
- Bulgaria
- Themes
- Media and Culture