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“Dear people of Skraven, tonight our father, Professor Stoyan Mihailov, is gone. Calmly and quietly, after a wonderful sunny day.
He was surrounded by a lot of attention and love not only from his relatives, but also from many of you. Tomorrow at our house, you can say goodbye to him. Peace of soul, “wrote Professor Mirchev.
Professor Stoyan Mihailov was the main critic of Todor Zhivkov before November 10, 1989. He is one of the founders of native sociology. He is the father of Prof. Mihail Mirchev and the grandfather of BSP MP Stoyan Mirchev.
He is one of the few senior BCP officials to criticize the name change of Bulgarian citizens of Turkish origin and the infamous July 1987 concept.
He was born in the village of Skravena, near Sofia, on October 6, 1930. He graduated in Philosophy at the University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”. Later he was assistant professor of philosophy at the Karl Marx Institute of Economics and collaborator of the Institute of Philosophy. Since 1968 he has worked at the Institute of Sociology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He was its director from 1973 to 1976.
Founder and former editor-in-chief of the journal Sociological Problems. Professor at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”, corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
His main scientific works are “Empirical sociological research” – a table book of Bulgarian sociologists, “Society as a sociological system”, “Sociological studies”, “The process of Renaissance in Bulgaria”, “Zhivkovism through the prism of a personal drama “,” Encyclopedic dictionary of sociology “- general scientific editing and management. His latest book, Stalinist Totalitarianism, has just been published.
The main thesis of Stoyan Mihailov’s book is that the previous society, which existed in our country and in the former Soviet Union, called “socialist”, was not like that. The term Mihailov uses is “Stalinist-totalitarian society.” The characteristics of socialist and communist society, which are contained in the works of Marx and Engels, not only differ from the result in the USSR, but in many respects they are opposite, says Stoyan Mihailov.
The author is convinced that this totalitarian society had an alternative. According to him, it was possible to reform it and turn it into a true socialist society. He believes that so far two options have been formed for the transition from a Stalinist society to a new one. One option is perestroika, by Gorbachev and his reforms. According to Mihailov, this option is a simple restoration of capitalism. The other model whose apologist is the author is the Chinese. This model began to be implemented by Deng Xiao Ping. Mihailov is impressed that for 22 years China’s gross domestic product has been growing by an average of around 10%.
“In the 21st century, China will take shape as the world’s leading power,” Mihailov was quoted as saying by futurists and researchers. It claims that we made a mistake in choosing the first time. The leadership of the Bulgarian Communist Party, and later the BSP, deliberately took the path of Gorbachev’s perestroika.
The famous report by Richard Rann and Ronald Att, paid for by our government, assigns Bulgaria the move towards “democratic capitalism”. The report is very honest, but Mihailov is disappointed that none of the members of the then Lukanov government, neither the party nor the parliamentary group, opposed it, writes “Sega” in retrospect on Stoyan’s life and scientific activity Mihailov on his occasion. anniversary.
The author is convinced that, as a result of the 11-year line drawn by this report, Bulgaria has been completely looted. Mihailov claims that the fact of the ongoing robbery only shows the huge assets that have been accumulated. He opposes both NATO and military pacts.
According to him, there is no alternative to globalization, but it must be carried out in an order in which there is no leading police force. One of Bulgaria’s problems, according to him, after 1944 was the unilateral commitment to the USSR and the extremely reduced ties with the West.
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