A lokacin "Jamhuriyar Jama'ar Bulgaria" (PRB), Jam'iyyar Kwaminisanci ta Bulgariya (BCP) ce ke mulkin Bulgaraia.Shugaban kwaminisanci Dimitrov yana gudun hijira, galibi a Tarayyar Soviet , tun 1923. Zaman Stalin na Bulgeriya bai wuce shekaru biyar ba.An tattara aikin noma kuma an ƙaddamar da gagarumin yaƙin neman zaɓe na masana'antu.Bulgaria ta amince da tsarin tattalin arziki na tsakiya, kamar na sauran jihohin COMECON.A tsakiyar 1940s, lokacin da aka fara tattarawa, Bulgeriya ta kasance ƙasar noma ta farko, tare da kusan kashi 80% na yawan jama'arta suna cikin yankunan karkara.^{[53 <>]} A cikin 1950 dangantakar diflomasiyya da Amurka ta rabu.Amma tushen goyon bayan Chervenkov a cikin Jam'iyyar Kwaminisanci ya yi kunkuntar don ya rayu da dadewa da zarar majibincinsa Stalin ya tafi.Stalin ya mutu a cikin Maris 1953 kuma a cikin Maris 1954 Chervenkov aka kori a matsayin sakataren jam'iyyar tare da amincewa da sabon shugabanci a Moscow da kuma maye gurbinsu da Todor Zhivkov.Chervenkov ya ci gaba da zama Firayim Minista har zuwa Afrilu 1956, lokacin da aka kore shi kuma Anton Yugov ya maye gurbinsa.Bulgaria ta sami ci gaban masana'antu cikin sauri tun daga shekarun 1950 zuwa gaba.Daga shekaru goma masu zuwa, tattalin arzikin ƙasar ya bayyana sosai.Ko da yake akwai matsaloli da yawa, kamar rashin gidaje da rashin isassun kayayyakin more rayuwa na birni, zamani ya kasance gaskiya.Daga nan sai kasar ta koma babbar fasahar kere-kere, bangaren da ke wakiltar kashi 14% na GDP a tsakanin shekarar 1985 zuwa 1990. Kamfanonin nata suna samar da na’urori masu sarrafa kwamfuta, hard disks, floppy disk da robobin masana’antu.^[54]A cikin shekarun 1960, Zhivkov ya fara yin gyare-gyare tare da zartar da wasu manufofin da suka shafi kasuwa a matakin gwaji.^[55] A tsakiyar shekarun 1950 ma'auni na rayuwa ya tashi sosai, kuma a cikin 1957 ma'aikatan aikin gona na gama gari sun amfana daga tsarin fansho na farko na aikin gona da jin daɗin rayuwa a Gabashin Turai.^[56] Lyudmila Zhivkova, 'yar Todor Zhivkov, ta inganta al'adun gargajiya na Bulgaria, al'adu da fasaha a duniya.^[57] Yaƙin neman zaɓe na ƙarshen 1980 da aka yi wa Turkawa ƙabila ya haifar da ƙaura na Turkawa Bulgariya 300,000 zuwa Turkiyya, ^[58] wanda ya haifar da raguwar noma mai yawa saboda asarar ƙarfin aiki.^[59]