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Pamphlets by the Bulgarian left communists
DELIRADEV (Pavel) & GUERDJIKOV (Mikhail), Vojna ili revoljucija [War or Revolution], Levski, Sofia,
1910 (Antimilitaristitcheska biblioteka 1). [Guerdjikov (1877-1947), friend of the Marxist Deliradev, will be in
June 1919 the main founder of the Bulgarian Anarcho-Communist Federation.]
ZIDAROV (Slava), Inertnost za samosakhranenie ili tchrez smeli aktsii kam okonchatelna pobeda [“Inertia by
selfconservation or resolute action towards final victory”], Sofia 1919. [After 1920 Zidarov – pseudonym of
Solomon Lazarov Goldštajn (1884-1968) – was living in Russia. He was member of the Bulgarian social
democracy since 1906, a leader of the metal union till 1913. He found refuge to France and worked as worker in
Renault, Paris. In contact with Lenin, he became bolshevik in 1915. He played a role in the Zimmerwaldian left
in Switzerland, was a friend of Jakob Herzog, but came back to Moscow in 1918. Sent by Lenin to Bulgaria in
March 1919, he criticized the passivity of the BCP. He came back to Moscow in 1920 and took part to the
second congress of the Komintern, without mandate, gaining the support of his friend Herzog,
antiparlamentarian, in the debate on parliamentarism. He had known later some problems with the stalinism in
the 30s, but he was finally freed and ‘rehabilitated’ after 1956. He died in Moscow in 1968.]
EDEROV, E., Napred ili nazad [“Forward or backward”], Sofia, 1919. [Expelled from the Party (Sofia) in
March 1919, Ederov was collaborator of the radical review Sotsialistitcheski pregled.]
DELIRADEV (Pavel), Komunisticheskite grupirovki v Balgariya, Sofia, 1920. (‘The communist groups in
Bulgaria’).
DELIRADEV (Pavel), Protiv parlamentarisma, Sofia, 1920 (‘Against parliamentarism’).
KOLINKOEV (Ivan), Dimitar NEDYALKOV, et alii, Pismo kam rabotnitsite pri BKP i Obshchiya c. Sayuz
(t.s.), Burgas 1920. (Open letter to the workers ‘organised’ by the BCP and the Bulgarian unions; against
parliamentarism and trade unions.)
BARZEV (Georgi), Internatsional i Balgarskata Komunistitcheska Partiya, Sofia,1921. (‘The International and
the Bulgarian Communist Party). Against Lenin’s opportunism.
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We will add the name of Cajo Brendel (one of the main members of the Group Daad en Gedachte, 1964-98),
who is the last rightful representative of council communism today. See his own bibliography in his book Anton
Pannekoek Denker der Revolution (Freiburg im Breisgau: Ça Ira Verlag, 2001), pp. 232-34, and his homepage
on (Web: .)
EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNTS
BRENDEL (Cajo), ‘Die ‘GIK’ in Holland. Persönliche Erinnerungen aus den Jahren 1934-1939’, in: Jahrbuch 2
(Marxistische Revolutionstheorien), 1974. Brendel was a member of the GIC from 1934 and for some time after.
His memoirs deal with the group’s activities and the divisions that arose in the ‘councilist’ movement in 1935.
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