Following the suppression, the government, "shpitskomandi" and IMRO detachments committed atrocities against the civil population in the regions that revolted, with particularly large atrocities around the town of Ferdinand. Active communists and agrarians were killed, including some which did not take part in the September Uprising. According to a book published for the limited use of the nomenklatura by the BCP in 1972, entitled "Stars in the Centuries" the total number of casualties is 841, this is mostly in line with researches made after the fall of the Communist regime. Historiography during the communist rule of Bulgaria often considerably exaggerated the figures with political purposes.