DIMITROV PRIJE LEIPZIGA
DIMITROV BEFORE LEIPZIG

Summary/Abstract: Georgi Dimitrov (1882-1949), a noted Bulgarian Communist leader and the secretary general of the Communist International (Comintern) from 1935 to 1943, was a virtual political discard at the time when the Nazis arrested him in 1933 and accused him of participating in the conspiracy to burn the German parliament (Reichstag). The Leipzig trial of 1933, in which Dimitrov defended the Communist position against these accusations, catapulted him into prominence among the aspiring anti-fascists, increasingly resentful of the Comintern’s indifference to the fascist danger. The article analyzes the main trends in Dimitrov’s political biography and demonstrates how Dimitrov’s experiences made him increasingly sensitive to the bankruptcy of Communist sectarianism.

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