Creation and Activity of IMRO up to the Ilinden Uprising

Creation and Activity of IMRO up to the Ilinden Uprising by Ivan Katardžiev is a historical study of the formation and early development of the Secret Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization . The author examines the late nineteenth-century political context that led to the creation of an organized movement advocating political autonomy for Macedonia and the Adrianople region.

Particular attention is given to the building of the internal network, the congresses, and the statutory principles, as well as to conflicts with supremacist tendencies and relations with Bulgarian political circles. The study outlines the growth of armed structures and the process of mass mobilization that preceded the Ilinden Uprising.

The book situates the early period of IMRO within the broader Macedonian national liberation struggle and the Balkan political environment of the time. It serves as a historiographical overview of the organizational development and ideological evolution of the movement up to 1903.