Georgi Dimitrov [antikvár]

FOREWORDThe name oj Georgi Dimitrov, a faithjul disciple oj Marx and Lenin, an outstanding militant oJ the international communist and workers movement, is known to working people throughout the world. Centuries will pass, but 7/ will remain as a symbol oj devotion to the cause oj the working class, a syhtbol oj jearlessness and sleadjastness in the struggle against capitalist explditatiori and jascist barbarity, against war.The Bulgarian people are rightly proud oj having given the world such a remarkable jighter jor the triumph oj the communist idéal. The most important events in Bulgaria's revolutionary working-class movement and the masi vivid pages oj its recent history are linked with the name and career oj Dimitrov. Under his leadership the Bulgarian Communist Party ensured the victory oj the socialist revolution and established a people's democratic state.Georgi Dimitrov was one oj the most talented and popular' leaders oj the working class to win recognition in the era oj the transition on a 'world scale jrom capitalism to socialism and oj the triumph oj the Leninist ideas.Georgi Dimitrov's creative approach to Marxist-Leninist science, his contribution to the development oj revolutionary strategy and tactics, to the immense upsurge in the international communist movement on the eve oj and during World War II, his relentless struggle against sectarianism' and opportunism and his striking humanism serve as an example, even today."to all communists. His views on the united, popular and national jront, on linking up the struggle jor democracy with the struggle jor socialism, on the worker-peasant alliance, on the indivisibility oj the proletariat's national and international obligations, on the role oj the Soviet Union as mainstay and base oj the 'world revolution, on transjorming every communist party into a decisive national jac-tor. played an important role in the victory oj the people's democratic revolutions.Humanity will never jorget Dimitrov's heroic exploit at the Reichstag Fire Trial. At that jrame-up show, staged by the nazis against the German Communist Party and the Comintern, he dealt the jirst crushing rhora! arid political blow, which produced a veritable impact on democratic public opinion in all continents. Unmasking the ugly jace oj jascism. Dimitrov exposed its anti-national and anti-humanitarian character. He warned mankind oj theperils threatening it and indicated the ways and means oj smashing jascism and oj preventing the world war it was preparing. History jully conjirmed the 'dejinition' oj 'jascism given by the Communist International and Dimitrov and put into ejject the verdict they had passed on the inhuman and brutal dictatorship oj the most reactionary circles oj the monopolistic bourgeoisie.