Summary
On March 29 and April 2 of this year, an extended meeting of the scientific council was held at the Institute of Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, at which the five-year activity of the journal “Literary Thought and the perspective plan for 1962” was discussed. Present were: Prof. Georgi Tsanev, Prof. Pantelei Zarev, Prof. Petar Dinekov, Prof. Emil Georgiev, Prof. Mihail Arnaudov, Prof. Stoyan Karolev, the scientific secretary of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Stoyko Bozhkov, Snezha Avramova from the founding party committee at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, senior scientific associates Georgi Dimov, Krastyo Genov and Efrem Karanfilov, scientific associates Iskra Panova, Minko Nikolov, Ivan Tsvetkov, Boyan Nichev, Krastyo Kuyumdzhievi who became associates of the institute. In his report, the editor-in-chief P. Zarev addressed the participants in the discussion with an appeal for the most active participation and careful assessment of the five-year activity of the magazine, in order to help the editorial board improve the writing of "Literary Thought", to enrich it and make it more interesting for the reader. He noted the particularly favorable time in which the discussion is taking place and the new inspiring tasks that the XXII Congress of the CPSU set for literary science and the overall development of socialist society. What had been started since the XX Congress of the CPSU was now confirmed with new, even more powerful force and persuasiveness: clearing away everything old and stifling that prevents the material and spiritual forces of the new system from unfolding and opening up new horizons for socialism, for the international communist movement, for socialist thought. B. emphasized the need to enrich the cultural and spiritual life of socialist society, to make new achievements in this direction, and pointed out the ways for the further development of socialist democracy and the complete elimination of the methods created during the cult of personality.
