Годишното

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.