Georgi Mikhailovich Dimitrov Biography and Timeline

Communist Party

Helps found the Bulgarian Communist Party

Comintern

Elected to the executive committee of the Comintern

Exile of Georgi Mikhailovich Dimitrov

Exiled after leading a rebellion in Bulgaria

Comintern

Appointed Head of the European section of the Comintern in Berlin

Plot

Accused with the Communists of the Reichstag

Trial

Wins worwide fame when acquitted of the Reichstag fire

Comintern

Appointed secretary general of the Comintern in Moscow

Role range: 1935-1943

General

Appointed secretary general of the Comintern in Moscow

Role range: 1935-1943

Head of State

Appointed Head of State for Bulgaria

Role range: 1945-1946

Balkan Federative Republic

During the Cominform, the Yugoslav and Bulgarian Communist leaders Josip Broz Tito and Georgi Dimitrov work on a project to merge their two countries into a Balkan Federative Republic

Role range: 1946-1949

Prime Minister of Bulgaria

Appointed Prime Minister of Bulgaria

Role range: 1946-1949

Balkan Federative Republic

The Bled Agreement is signed by Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian leader, and Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav leader, which paves the way for future unification between the states in a new Balkan Federative Republic

Role range: 1946-1949

Bled Agreement

The Bled Agreement is signed by Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgarian leader, and Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav leader, which paves the way for future unification between the states in a new Balkan Federative Republic

Role range: 1946-1949

Bled Agreement

The Bled Agreement supports the unification of Vardar Macedonia and Pirin Macedonia and the return of Western Outlands to Bulgaria

Role range: 1946-1949

Bled Agreement

The Bled agreement was accepted with the Treaty on Friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance between Yugoslavia and the People's Republic of Bulgaria, signed and published in Evksinograd

Role range: 1946-1949

Bled Agreement

The Yugoslav Government negotiates in the conference of Bled that Bulgaria will waive $25 million in war damages owed by Yugoslavia

Role range: 1946-1949

Bled Agreement

The first time that Bulgaria recognizes Ethnic Macedonians and the Macedonian language

Role range: 1946-1949

Treaty of Friendship

The treaty contains: several of the Agreement on economic cooperation, on customs facilitation, agreement for preparation of a customs union, the facilitation of border crossings, border crossing on the border of population and of the citizenship between Yugoslavia and Bulgaria

Role range: 1946-1949

Treaty of Friendship

The Bled agreement was accepted with the Treaty on Friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance between Yugoslavia and the People's Republic of Bulgaria, signed and published in Evksinograd

Role range: 1946-1949

Treaty of Friendship are reversed

The policies resulting from the Treaty of Friendship are reversed after the Tito-Stalin split when Bulgaria, being subordinated to the interests of the Soviet Union, took a stance against Yugoslavia

Role range: 1946-1949

Treaty of Friendship

The policies resulting from the Treaty of Friendship are reversed after the Tito-Stalin split when Bulgaria, being subordinated to the interests of the Soviet Union, took a stance against Yugoslavia

Role range: 1946-1949

Treaty of Friendship

When the Cominform campaign against Yugoslavia severed the Yugoslav Communist party leadership, the government of the People's Republic of Bulgaria deleted the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance of Bled with all agreements, except the decision of pardon of war damages

Role range: 1946-1949