Background
He was born in 1911 as Asen Charakchiev in the town of Nevrokop, in the Salonica Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire, now the town of Gotse Delchev, Bulgaria.
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Asen Kojarov
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In the prison, he illegally studied the classicists of Marxism-Leninism and guided circles in philosophy.
Career
In 1935 as a student of philosophy he was expelled from University of Sofia for anti-fascist activities and was sentenced to 12 1/2 years of imprisonment. Freed in 1940, he again joined the illegal anti-fascist movement. In March 1944 he was imprisoned for a second time.
In 1948 he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Sofia as a correspondent student.
In 1949-1951 he was lecturer in philosophy at the Polytechnical School in Sofia. From 1952 to 1972, with a short interruption, he was scientific secretary and deputy editor in chief of the Filosofska Missal magazine.
In 1957 he went to specialize in Moscow. From 1960 to 1962 he was director of Bulgarian Encyclopaedia, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
In 1962 he was elected as senior research associate in philosophy.
From 1966 to 1969 he was a deputy director Of the Bulgarian History Institute. Also from 1966 to 1981 he was deputy director of the Institute for Modern Social Theories. In 1968 he changed his family name from Charakchiev (Turkish version) into Kojarov (Bulgarian translation).
In 1973 he became doctor of philosophical sciences, in 1977 - professor of philosophy.
In 1971 he was awarded with a medal People"s Republic of Bulgaria, 1 grade, in 1981 - with a medal Georgi Dimitrov.
Politics
On 9 September 1944 he was liberated by the victorious socialist revolution in Bulgaria. Under socialism, Asen Kojarov worked as a functionary of the Bulgarian Communist Party in the state apparatus and as a journalist. From 1963 to 1966 he was Bulgarian representative at the International magazine Problems of Peace and Socialism, Prague, Czechoslovakia.
Monism and Pluralism in Ideology and in Politics, Sofia, 1972-in Bulgarian, 1973-in English, 1974-in German and in Russian. The Social Forces which Performed the Socialist Revolution in Bulgaria (in English and in French),Sofia Press, 1968.
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Nationality
Bulgarian -
Political Party
Communist Party