The Bulgarian Radical Democratic Party in the period of the post-war revolutionary crisis (1919-1923)

Abstract

Bashar's Radical Democratic Party was one of the political forces in public life. After the First World War, it ranked sixth among the country's political parties in terms of membership. In the period of the post-war revolutionary crisis in Bulgaria, the Radical Democratic Party, like the other leftist parties, grew several times. From 5,000 before the war it increased its membership to more than 30,000 adherents. And together with its voters in the elections, the Bulgarian Radical Democratic Party represented a considerable force of 40,000. This allowed it to increase its participation and manifestations in the political arena. The Bulgarian Radical Democratic Party continued to organize and incorporate the petty bourgeois strata and intellectuals.