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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Ivan Mihailov Gavrilov (Bulgarian: , (August 26, 1896, Novo Selo, present-day Republic of Macedonia September 5, 1990, Rome, Italy) was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary in Ottoman and interwar Macedonia, leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) after 1924. In Republic of Macedonia he is considered a Bulgarophile. Ivan Mihailov was born on August 26, 1896, in the village of Novo Selo (now part of tip Municipality, Republic of Macedonia) in the Ottoman Empire. Mihailov studied at the Bulgarian Men's High School in Thessaloniki up until the Second Balkan War when the school was closed by the new Greek administration, he later continued his studies at a Serbian school in Skopje. He was offered a scholarship by the Serbian Ministry of Education to pursue a degree at a European university but declined, later enlisting in the Bulgarian army, which had by that time occupied a significant portion of the region. After the end of World War I, Mihailov emigrated to Bulgaria, settling in Sofia. Here he began studying law at the Sofia University, at which time he was contacted by IMRO activists and offered to work as a personal secretary for IMRO's leader at that time, Todor Aleksandrov. On August 31, 1924, Todor Aleksandrov was assassinated in unclear circumstances and IMRO soon came under the control of Mihailov, who had become a powerful figure in Bulgarian politics. IMRO's leadership was quick to blame Aleksandrov's murder on communists, while many postulate that Mihailov may have actually been responsible for the murder. These events created friction between factions within the organization and led to several high-profile murders, including that of Petar Chaulev (who led the Ohrid uprising in 1913) in M... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1407767 ... Read more