Most also suffer the lingering pain of divided families, the result of longtime Communist dictator Todor Zhivkov’s heavy-handed attempts at forced ethnic assimilation, which prompted nearly one- ...

Now, the tiny Balkan nation is also thawing a bit. Last week Todor Zhivkov, 55, Premier of Bulgaria and the brisk, burly first secretary of its Communist Party, made his first official trip to ...

EXCLUSIVE — Political instability is nothing new for Bulgaria since the collapse of Todor Zhivkov’s Communist regime in 1989. That being said, the country’s government has been quite ...

This "tides" type of politics continued until the moment when Todor Zhivkov comes to the Bulgarian political scene. Spiridon Sfetas describes Zhivkov as an "uneducated but extremely smart villager." ...

It was a portrait of communist dictator Todor Zhivkov, who ruled Bulgaria, 1954 to 1989. The sign under the picture reads: "Todor Zhivkov used to say: 'All this that we have built [under my ...

SOFIA -- Newly proposed history books for high-school students in Bulgaria have triggered controversy by presenting the country's last communist-era totalitarian ruler, Todor Zhivkov, as a hero ...

But the Communist leadership here, under longtime leader Todor Zhivkov, makes it clear that any changes must conform ”with the principles of Marxism- Leninism and our Communist ideals.” ...

Bulgaria’s Todor Zhivkov may still toady to the Kremlin’s foreign-policy wishes (see above), but when it comes to internal matters, he is as reform-minded as any other Eastern European.

It contains items from the period between the conquest of Bulgaria by the Red Army in 1944 and the end of the Todor Zhivkov regime in 1989, with a focus on products available in Bulgaria during ...

This is what I did when I was 17. My pals and I called Todor Zhivkov, head of state of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria. We began calling Zhivkov at about 9 p.m. on a Friday, which was roughly ...