against the Treaty of Neuilly, read by Dimiter Blagoev in the Bulgarian National Assembly in 1919 he protested against the partition of the Bulgarian land and nation and promoted the ideas of the Bulgarian Soviet Socialist Republic, as a part of a Balkan Federal Soviet Socialist Republic, as the only political solution able to assure freedom of Macedonia, Thrace and Dobruja and as a counterweight of Bulgarian nationalism. Later years and death Blagoev led the Narrow Socialists into the Communist International in 1919, and the party changed its name to the Bulgarian Communist Party. However, during this period Blagoev and the party as a whole did not completely adopt Bolshevik positions on the basic questions. This determined the party’s policies during the Vladaya Soldiers’ Rebellion of 1918 and the military coup of 9 June 1923 when the party adopted a position of neutrality. He was also an opponent of the failed September Uprising, believing that conditions were not ripe for a revolution in Bulgaria at that time. Blagoev was also author of a number of research essays on questions of Marxist philosophy, political economy, history, esthetics, and Bulgarian literature. He died in Sofia, Bulgaria. Honours The city of Gorna Dzhumaya in today's Blagoevgrad Province in Bulgaria was renamed after him, Blagoevgrad. The village of Blahoyeve in Odessa Oblast was renamed in 1923 after him (formerly Velikiy Buyalyk). The settlement of Blagoyevo in the Komi Republic of Russia also bears Dimitar Blagoev's name. The Buzludzha Monument on the peak of Buzludzha was built by the Bulgarian communist regime to commemorate the 1891 founding of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party. It was opened in 1981. Gallery Notes External links Dimitûr Blagoev, On the Macedonian Question, June 1905, in Andreja Živković and Dragan Plavšić (eds), "The Balkan Socialist Tradition and the Balkan Federation 1871-1915", "Revolutionary History", London, 2003. Dimitûr Blagoev, The Revolution in Turkey and Social Democracy, 1908. Dimitûr Blagoev, Political Prospects, June 1909. Dimitûr Blagoev, The Balkan Conference and the Balkan Federation, December 1911. 1856 births 1924 deaths Bulgarians from Aegean Macedonia Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party politicians Bulgarian Communist Party politicians Modern history of the Blagoevgrad Province Macedonia under the Ottoman Empire People extradited from Russia People extradited to Bulgaria Macedonian Bulgarians Members of the National Assembly (Bulgaria) People from Kastoria (regional unit) Bulgarian Marxists