The Book of Academician Kiril Hristov "The Struggle of Ideas in the Science – Clash of Ideas"

Abstract

Kiril Vasilev was born on 23rd May 1918 and died in 2014 in Sofia. In 1938 he was a member of the Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP). During the Second World War he was a partisan in the Second Rhodope Brigade ‘”Vasil Kolarov”. Kiril Vasilev attended major Thompson from Greece to Bulgaria. After 9th September 1944 he was one of the main opponents against the organization “Friendship Motherland”, which tried to change names of the Bulgarians, who professed the Islam.Kiril Vasilev studied Philosophy at Sofia University. He was a lecturer at the University and read lectures on Historical Materialism. He was a head of the department of “Dialectical and Historical Materialism”. Kiril Vasilev laid the foundations of the Empiric Sociology in Bulgaria.Kiril Vasilev was not a conformist. He came into conflict with many leaders of the BCP. His clashes with Todor Zhivkov were frequent. He leveled criticism at all existing political models. Kiril Vasilev was not flattering in his interpretation on present-day political, economical, and social data, too. The special features of Kiril Vasilev`s character, his direct statement, and his experience give us an additional clearness in relation to the fate of his book. The monograph, according to his own words, was written about 1978, but it was accessible to the reading public only in 2008. In this work we can notice some inconvenient ideas, for the sake of that this book probably cames off the press approximately 30 years later.