September Uprising

September Uprising
Part of the Revolutions of 1917–1923
Leaflet of the Vratsa revolutionary district intended for the soldiers sent to crush the uprising.
Date 14–29 September 1923 (2 weeks and 1 day) Location Bulgaria Result Bulgarian government victory Rebellion crushed; rebels withdraw to the Balkan Mountains
Belligerents
Bulgarian government IMRO Shpitskomandi (paramilitary volunteers)	Bulgarian Communist Party Bulgarian Agrarian National Union Anarchists
Commanders and leaders
	Georgi Dimitrov Vasil Kolarov
Casualties and losses
841 killed[1] Museum of the Revolutionary Movement in Bulgaria, Stars in the Ages, Publishing House of the Bulgarian Communist Party, Sofia, 1972, 791 pages.

The September Uprising (Bulgarian: Септемврийско въстание, Septemvriysko vastanie) was a 1923 communist insurgency in Bulgaria. The Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP) attempted to overthrow Alexander Tsankov's new government established following the coup d'état of 9 June.

See also

• Bulgarian coup d'état of 1923
• Bulgarian coup d'état of 1934
• Bulgarian coup d'état of 1944
• St Nedelya Church assault

References

Bibliography

• Kolarov, V. (2016). ""The Lessons of October" and the Bulgarian Communist Party". Trotsky's Challenge. Leiden: Brill. pp. 464–480. doi:10.1163/9789004306660_019. ISBN 9789004217256. LCCN 2015032934.
• Kosev, Dimitur (1981). "The Historical Significance of the September 1923 Uprising in Bulgaria". Southeastern Europe. 8 (1): 210–223. doi:10.1163/187633381X00145. ISSN 1876-3332.
• Sygkelos, Yannis (2009). "The National Discourse of the Bulgarian Communist Party on National Anniversaries and Commemorations (1944–1948)". Nationalities Papers. 37 (4): 425–442. doi:10.1080/00905990902985678. ISSN 0090-5992.
• Voukov, Nikolai (2003). "Death and the desecrated: monuments of the socialist past in post-1989 Bulgaria". Anthropology of East Europe Review. 21 (2): 49–54.
• Zhechev, Toncho (1981). "The September 1923 Uprising and Bulgarian Culture". Southeastern Europe. 8 (1): 224–244. doi:10.1163/187633381X00154. ISSN 1876-3332.

Further reading

• Barbusse, Henri (1928). The Executioners (in Bulgarian). Sofia.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Kratka balgarska entsiklopediya Кратка българска енциклопедия [A short Bulgarian encyclopedia] (in Bulgarian). Sofia. 1969.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Istoriya na Balgariya (in Bulgarian). Sofia: Hristo Botev. 1993.
• Dimitrov, Georgi; Kolarov, Vasil; Chervenkov, Valko (1953). The September Uprising, 1923-1953. Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo. OCLC 6217606. (point of view of Bulgarian Communist Party leaders)

External links

• Query of a social democrat deputy in the National Assembly regarding the terror around Lom in September 1923 (in Bulgarian)
• Folk song about the massacre of rebels in Gorna Gnoynitsa (in Bulgarian)
• Commentary of data of the German embassy and a conversation with Aleksandar Tsankov (in Bulgarian)

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