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The victory of 9. IX. 1944 opened a new era both in the socio-political development of the Bulgarian people and in the development of Bulgarian science. The people's power, the Bulgarian Communist Party have always emphasized that the construction of a socialist society is impossible without the comprehensive development of all branches of science and are constantly making efforts to create the necessary conditions for its flourishing. And if the natural, mathematical, technical sciences were harnessed to the creation of the material base of society, then the humanitarian sciences had to contribute to the formation of a new consciousness, of new moral, ethical, philosophical views in people - builders of socialism and communism. Hence the special importance of science, which deals with the problems of literature - one of the most active factors for ideological Education and re-education, for the creation in man of a new worldview, a new socialist worldview.

"PROLETARIAN REVOLUTIONARY SOLIDARITY IS NOT AN EMPTY WORD!" The September Uprising in Bulgaria of 1923 was the first anti-fascist uprising, the first assault of the working masses to block the barbaric march of fascism that was coming after the First World War. With the blood of the Bulgarian workers and peasants, who colored the waters of the Ogosta and Maritsa rivers more than forty years ago, the opening pages of the magnificent anti-fascist struggle of the European peoples, which lasted more than two decades, were written. The heroic and bloody battle of our working people with the fascist gangs of Tsankov was a signal, a warning and a lesson for the workers and peasants in other countries. After the uprising, the working masses strengthened their revolutionary readiness and determination to resist and attack the fascist plague, which was stretching its sinister hand over Europe. As is known, the heroic uprising of the popular masses, however, failed. For a number of reasons, it suffered defeat and was suppressed in the most cruel and barbaric way. But this was a defeat that prepared the people's victory on September 9, 1944, when the prophetic words of the heroic singer of the uprising, Geo Milev, came true - September became May!

"September poetry" - this is how Georgi Bakalov first, and then Ivan Meshekov and others called the poems and stories of Nikola Furnadzhiev, Angel Karaliychev and Asen Raztsvetnikov, which appeared in "Nov Pat" as the first poetic echo of the majestic and terrible September days. Over time, literary critics began to add to the "September" artists Geo Milev and the other poets from "Plamak", Krum Kyulyavkov and the other collaborators of "Zvanar", Anton Strashimirov and the budding poets and writers from "Vedrina".... For more than four decades, September has been a constant and ageless theme in our poetry and prose, and September literature - as a new, aesthetically distinct moment in literary development - one of the important problems of literary history and criticism. The most vivid and characteristic, truly "September" stage is taken (it was this that contemporaries called "September") to be the period from 1923, immediately after the uprising until the April assassination attempt of 1925. However, starting from the specific historical moment itself, from the approximately equal illumination of the September theme, from the similar or identical aesthetic positions and artistic tasks of the September artists, one could add to this characteristic stage a year or two later - after the April assassination attempt until 1927 - with Strashimirov's activity in "Vedrina".