* * * Annual Report Meeting of the Institute of Literature [for 1963]

On December 30, 1963, an expanded meeting of the Scientific Council was held, at which the report on the scientific and research activities of the institute in the past 1963 was discussed and adopted. In his report, the director of the institute, Stoyko Bozhkov, made an analysis of the main achievements and weaknesses in scientific work and outlined the upcoming tasks. He considered the past year under the sign of the struggle to establish the Leninist line in the development of our art and literature. The party leadership's concern for the purity and sharpness of our ideological weapons, the principled struggle against the influences of bourgeois ideology and decadent Western culture helped to unite the forces of creative workers, to focus attention on the sound principles of party and nationalism. The open, clear and truthful party criticism of a number of passions, which found the brightest expression in the speech of Dr. T. Zhivkov "Communist Ideology - the Supreme Principle of Our Literature and Art" helped to create an atmosphere of greater trust between artists, to unite forces and, by rejecting the contagious rot of decadent literature, lack of ideas and formalism, to direct efforts towards creative development of the problems of our contemporary development.