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JANEV (Nikola), Balgarskata komunističeska partija v Burgaski okrag 1891-1923 (Sofia: BKP, 1963). Few
elements on Kolinkoev in Burgas.
ARABADZHIEV (Sava), Borbata na BKP (t.s.) protiv ‘Levite’ komunisti 1919-1921 (Sofia: izdatelstvo na BKP,
1964). (‘Fights within the BCP against ‘left’ communists 1919-21’; stalinist viewpoint, but gives some
information on the Ganchev’s and Kolinkoev’s current).
DIMITROVA (Stela), BKP protiv desnija oportjunizam – za pobedata na leninizma 1917-1925 g. Stalinist
bulgarian work on the communist party, fighting “opportunism”, to go on the path of “ victorious Leninism”,
1917-25. (Sofia: Balgarska komunisticeska partija,1968).
MARINOVA (Maria), Balgarskite marksisti i germanskoto rabotnitchesko dvizhenie : 1900-1912 (Sofia:
Partizdat, 1979). Bulgarian Marxists and German workers’ movement, 1900-12.
JOTOV (Jordan), VASILEV (Kiril) et alii, Dimitar Blagoev: biografija (Sofia: Partizdat, 1979).
BALKANSKI, Histoire du mouvement libertaire en Bulgarie (esquisse), groupe Fresnes-Antony de la
Fédération anarchiste, Paris, 1982. [Some elements on the relationship between anarchists and left communists,
useful biographies. Georgi Grigoriev (1906-1996), known as Balkanski, was active inside the Bulgarian
Anarcho-Communist Federation, and, in the emigration, took part to anarchist activities in France after 1945.]
HAUPT (Georges) (ed.), Le mouvement ouvrier bulgare. Publications socialistes bulgares, 1882-1918. Essai
bibliographique (Paris: EHSS/Institut d’études slaves, 1984).
BELL (John), The Bulgarian Communist Party from Blagoev to Živkov (Stanford, 1986). Few elements on the
Bulgarian communist left.
KOLEVA (Tatjana), Kabakčiev (Christo Stefanov), Izbrani proizvedenija v dva toma, Vol. 1: June 1895-Sept.
1917 (Sofija: Partizdat, 1988).
ČAČEVSKI (Venelin), Balgarskijat komuniza, Sofia [s.n.], 1993.
KANEVA-DAMJANOVA (Živka), DUMONT (Paul); POBORNIKOVA (Stoyanka), Balgarskite
socialdemokrati i meždunarodnoto socialističesko bjuro korespondencija 1900-1914. Les social-démocrates
bulgares et le Bureau socialiste international; correspondance 1900-1914 (Sofia: MIKOM, 1996).
On the Russian Communist Left
SINIGAGLIA (Roberto), Miasnikov e la rivoluzione russa, Jaca Book (Milano: Jaka Books, 1973). This
contains many texts by the Workers’ Group and by Miasnikov; plus the political itinerary of the latter, who was
close to the KAPD. The 1923 Manifesto of the Workers’ Group was published in French in Invariance (série II),
No. 6. An English version appeared in Workers’ Dreadnought, Jan. 5, 1924.
AVRICH (Paul), “Bolshevik Opposition to Lenin: G. I. Miasnikov and the Workers’ Group”, The Russian
Review, vol. 43, Jan. 1984, pp. 1-28.
BOURRINET (Philippe), biography of Miasnikov, with bibliography of the Russian communist left, to be
published.
On the Australian ‘councilist’ left
BURGMAN (Verity), Revolutionary Industrial Unionism. The Industrial Workers of the World in Australia
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
WRIGHT (Steven), ‘Left Communism in Australia: J. A. Dawson and the Southern Advocate for Workers’
Councils’, Thesis Eleven I (Melbourne, 1980), pp. 43-77. (Web: ).
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