Markow, Georgi Ivanow (1929-1978). – Markov, Georgi: The Truth that Killed : (The devasting memoirs that caused the assassination of ’Bulgaria’s Slozhenitsyn’). Translated by Liliana Brisy. With an introduction by Annabel Markov. (1. ed.), London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (1983). 8° (22x15), 280 p., publisher’s hardbound with jacket, tight and clean, well cared,

In The Truth That Killed Georgi Markov offers a devastating critique of a Communist Party riddled with corruption and decadence, of a leader utterly controlled by his Russian masters. Looking further back, to his experience as a student and engineer, he captures the humiliation, absurdity and heroism of ordinary Bulgarian life. In a book of great power, subtlety and humour, Markov creates a gallery of characters who begin to take on a haunting, symbolic significance: the secret policeman who gets drunk every night and interrogates imaginary prisoners, the minor Party official who orders his fellow factory workers to guard a vat of vaseline. Most telling of all, he describes a series of meetings with the President, Todor Zhivkov; it was these descriptions, many now believe, which let to his assassination.
Markov was assassinated on a London street via a micro-engineered pellet that might have contained ricin. Contemporary newspaper accounts reported that he had been stabbed in the leg with an umbrella delivering a poisoned pellet, wielded by someone associated with the Bulgarian Secret Service.

This is the first dissident work to come out of Bulgaria, a country about which astonishingly little is known, a country where dissidents are not allowed to exist.

• Kategorie: Biografie Selbstzeugnisse Erinnerungen Tagebücher
• Schlagwörter: Bulgarien bulgarisch; Bulgaria Bulgarian · Dissidenten; dissidents · Gesellschaftskritik · Kommunismus Sozialismus Marxismus-Leninismus
• Sprache: Englisch (en)
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• Bestellnummer: 55608AB LAG003

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