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On January 4 of this year, an expanded meeting of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences was held, at which the scientific work carried out in 1961 was reported. In the report, delivered by the director of the Institute, Corresponding Member G. Tsanev, both the scientific-organizational and scientific-research activities of the institute were thoroughly examined, the achievements and weaknesses of the institute staff in fulfilling the tasks on the scientific plan were indicated. Now, after the historic decisions of the XXII Congress of the CPSU and the November Plenum of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party, the rapporteur pointed out, conditions have been created for a complete overcoming of dogmatism and citationism, for creative discussions on issues of literary theory, history and criticism based on Marxist-Leninist teachings. The creative discussions and disputes, always conducted in a communist party spirit, will help clarify many problems, will raise our literary studies to a higher level, will help create highly artistic socialist-realist literature. Mr. Tsanev consistently addressed the individual tasks of the annual plan. During the year, work continued on the four-volume history of Bulgarian literature. The first volume - Old Bulgarian Literature - discussed back in 1960, has already been finally edited and prepared for publication. It will be published by the end of the current year. Volume two - Renaissance Literature - was to be discussed by the end of 1961. Unfortunately, one of the members of the author team did not fulfill the obligations undertaken in a timely manner and another author had to be sought to write these chapters. The volume will be finally completed by March and its discussion will begin immediately - first by the author's team, and in June it will be put up for wide discussion in order to be published by the end of the year. Most of the chapters of volume three have also been written, which will also be discussed by the end of the current year. Work is also underway on volume four. During the year, a significant part of the contributors have worked on individual topics related to the development of Bulgarian literature in its various periods, on the connections of our literature with the literatures of other peoples, on individual writers and literary phenomena, as well as on more general or more special theoretical questions. The development of topics affecting the development of our literature from its inception to the present day helps to one degree or another to clarify the nature of the literary process, to reveal the ideological and artistic wealth of individual creators, and to use them to create new, full-fledged socialist-realist works.

On December 20 of this year, an expanded meeting of the scientific council was held, at which the work of the Institute of Literature in 1962 was reported. The management report, presented by the director of the institute, Georgi Tsanev, examined in detail the scientific research and scientific organizational activities of the institute, gave assessments of the work of the sections, departments and the "Ivan Vazov Museum", clarified the issue of the state of the personnel, the material and technical base, etc. The work of the scientific workers in 1962 took place in the light of the XXII Congress of the CPSU, the April and November Plenums of our party. This was a year of great tension and sharp disputes, a turning point in which, from the high tribune of the historic Eighth Congress of the Bulgarian Communist Party, the cult of personality and the associated dogmatism, scholasticism, pseudoscientific interpretation, dispassionate registration of facts, doctrinaireism... A remarkable year in which the truthful word of the party sounded with enormous force, reality was given abundant light, the great importance of the entire ideological front, of our literary science, was emphasized. The historic Marxist-Leninist decisions of the Eighth Congress of the Bulgarian Communist Party opened up a wide field for calm, independent work to the scientific staff of the institute, brought complete democratization into the disputes, mobilized the forces of the scientific workers for an even more active, merciless struggle against revisionism and the influence of bourgeois ideology, against the remnants of the cult. This was a year of a rapid, healing process that brightened the atmosphere and the situation in the institute and gave the opportunity to overcome all kinds of petty, personal ambitions, to strengthen a single, cohesive scientific team. The decisions of the April and November plenums are of great importance and the scientific workers of the institute sought to apply them specifically in the tasks that lay before them. for consideration.

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.

On January 4, this year, an expanded meeting of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences was held, at which its work in 1964 was reported. A report on the scientific research activities of the associates was presented by the director of the institute, St. Bozhkov.

On October 16, 1968, in Sofia, in the great hall of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, a solemn celebration was held on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the birth of one of the most prominent representatives of Bulgarian literary studies - Acad. Mihail Arnaudov. The hall turned out to be cramped for the numerous admirers of the jubilee, among whom were prominent Bulgarian public figures, writers, scientific and cultural figures, students, and citizens. The presidium was occupied by Acad. Todor Pavlov, Acad. Angel Balevski, Acad. Pantelei Zarev, Acad. Vladimir Georgiev, Patriarch Kiril, Georgi Dzhagarov, Efrem Karanfilov, Stoyko Bozhkov - director of the Institute of Literature, and others.