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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809392603321

Autore

Dimitrov Georgi <1882-1949.>

Titolo

The diary of Georgi Dimitrov, 1933-1949 / / introduced and edited by Ivo Banac ; German part translated by Jane T. Hedges, Russian by Timothy D. Sergay, and Bulgarian by Irina Faion

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2003

ISBN

1-281-72261-8

9786611722616

0-300-13385-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (560 pages)

Collana

Annals of Communism

Altri autori (Persone)

BanacIvo

Disciplina

949.903/1/092

B

Soggetti

Statesmen - Bulgaria

Communists - Bulgaria

Bulgaria History Boris III, 1918-1943

Bulgaria History 1944-1990

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Written in Russian, Bulgarian, and German.  Published in Bulgarian in 1997 under the title: Dnevnik. Some material has been omitted from the English translation.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Transliteration and Usage -- Chapter One. Germany -- Chapter Two. The Soviet Union -- Chapter Three. Bulgaria -- Biographical Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Georgi Dimitrov (1882-1949) was a high-ranking Bulgarian and Soviet official, one of the most prominent leaders of the international Communist movement and a trusted member of Stalin's inner circle. Accused by the Nazis of setting the Reichstag fire in 1933, he successfully defended himself at the Leipzig Trial and thereby became an international symbol of resistance to Nazism. Stalin appointed him head of the Communist International (Comintern) in 1935, and he held this position until the Comintern's dissolution in 1943. After the end of the Second World War, Dimitrov returned to Bulgaria and became its first Communist premier. During the years between 1933 and his death



in 1949, Dimitrov kept a diary that described his tumultuous career and revealed much about the inner working of the international Communist organizations, the opinions and actions of the Soviet leadership, and the Soviet Union's role in shaping the postwar Eastern Europe. This important document, edited and introduced by renowned historian Ivo Banac, is now available for the first time in English. It is an essential source for information about international Communism, Stalin and Soviet policy, and the origins of the Cold War.