''Epoha'' (, 'Epoch') was a

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n daily newspaper, published from

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between June 25, 1922 and December 29, 1925. ''Epoha'' functioned as a mouthpiece of the rightist tendency within the

Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party The Bulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party (; BRSDP) was a Bulgarian leftist group founded in 1894. History In July 1891, on the initiative of Dimitar Blagoev, the social democratic circles of Tarnovo, Gabrovo, Sliven, Stara Zagora, Kazanlak ...

.Kowalski, Werner.
Geschichte der Sozialistischen Arbeiter-Internationale, (1923–1940)
'. Berlin: Dt. Verl. d. Wissenschaften, 1985. P. 288. Grigor Cheshmedzhiev served as the editor of ''Epoha''. He edited the newspaper along with Krastyo Pastuhov. The newspaper was owned by Nikolai Donchev, a Bulgarian translator, literary critic and scholar. ''Epoha'' ran a defamatory campaign against the

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and the

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. The Agrarian National Union government banned the newspaper on May 8, 1923. ''Epoha'' resumed publication after the June 9, 1923 coup d'etat (which Cheshmedzhiev and Pashutov celebrated), which issues coming out after June 11, 1923. The front page of the June 11, 1923 carried the message 'Christ has resurrected!" (in reference to the June 9 coup d'etat). After the coup ''Epoha'' stepped up its attacks on the Communist Party and the Agrarian National Union. ''Epoha'' was closed down in December 1925, following a decision of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Social Democratic Workers Party.

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