Gotse Delchev in the context of the IMARO’s disciplinary policy towards the population and personnel

The issue of Gotse Delchev’s inclusion in IMARO’s disciplinary policy is part of a wider debate about the Committee’s purposeful attempts to infiltrate the daily lives of its members, primarily the Bulgarian population in the Macedonia and Adrianople Thrace regions of the Ottoman Empire. 

This policy was important for IMARO from the point of view of expediency and raising its authority. G. Delchev showed an attitude towards the innovations that the Organization imposed in the field of revolutionary justice, education and morality. 

All these components were subordinated to the revolutionary purposefulness, on the one hand, and to the desire to cultivate a new civilized social order, on the other. 

Keywords: Gotse Delchev, IMARO, disciplinary policy, Bulgarian population, Macedonia, Adrianople Thrace