Born Sept. 24, 1860, in Shu-men; died Feb. 2, 1941, in Sofia. Bulgarian politician.
Sakuzov was educated in Germany, Great Britain, and France. He was instrumental in founding the reformist Bulgarian Social Democratic League in 1892; when the league merged with the Bulgarian Social Democratic Party in 1894, he became a member of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Workers’ Social Democratic Party (BWSDP) and the leader of the opportunist current. Sakuzov was a spokesman for the “common cause” movement, the Bulgarian variety of Bernsteinism. After the movement’s followers were driven out of the BWSDP (1903), he founded the Bulgarian Workers’ Social Democratic Party (Broad Socialists).
Sakuzov was an advocate of “civil peace” in World War I (1914–18). He was minister of trade, industry, and labor in 1919. In the 1920’s and 1930’s he was a spokesman for a revisionist and bourgeois-nationalist policy.