Contents
Editor's Acknowledgements
About the CURRENT EDITION A NOTE from Alexander Nakov's "Grandchildren".
FOREWORD by Nick Heath.
INTRODUCTION by Rob Blow.
NOTE ON THE TEXT
OFFICIAL DOCUMENT FROM THE ARCHIVES OF BULGARIAN
STATE SECURITY.
CHAPTER 1: AUTOBIOGRAPHY of ALEXANDER NAKOV
CHAPTER 2: ESPERANTO.
CHAPTER 3: 1938-1942
CHAPTER 4: IN THE SKOPJE PRISON
CHAPTER 5: WITH THE PARTISANS..
CHAPTER 6: THE RETURN
CHAPTER 7: 16th DECEMBER..
CHAPTER 8: THE BELENE CONCENTRATION CAMP
CHAPTER 9: AFTER THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS
CHAPTER 10:EXILED
CHAPTER 11: ON THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT IN BULGARIA
CHAPTER 12: CHANGES..
Appendix I: WHY THE MOVEMENT NEEDS ORGANIZATION..
Appendix II: PLATFORM OF THE FEDERATION OF ANARCHIST COMMUNISTS IN BULGARIA, 1945.
Appendix III: LETTER CONCERNING A RELATIVELY UNKNOWN MOVEMENT
Appendix IV: BULGARIAN ANARCHIST MOVEMENT IN 2013.....
Appendix V: BACKGROUND TO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
EDITION
Appendix VI: REPORT FROM THE BOOKFAIR MEETING 2016. KOSACHA VILLAGE..
INDEX
The Dossier of Subject N° 1218
A Bulgarian Anarchist's Story
by Alexander Nakov
ALEXANDER NAKOV, BORN 1919: "SECONDARY EDUCATION IN FASCIST PRISONS... HIGHER EDUCATION IN BOLSHEVIK PRISONS"
Of the few who managed to survive the horrors of Bulgaria's Stalinist concentration camps, Alexander Nakov is possibly the most representative of the older generation of active and committed anarchists.
Initially reluctant to write his memoirs, Alexander was eventually persuaded by friends that his story needed to be told. And by telling that story, he now remains a vital link between the anarchist militants of the past and the youth of today.
In clear and concise prose, Alexander details his youthful activity, his subsequent imprisonment and his fierce resistance to an inhuman system.
As well as his memoirs, this book also contains official government and state security documents about the author documents that give yet another insight into the anarchist Alexander Nakov, targeted by the 'People's State' and classified as 'Subject No.1218.'
The current edition of the volume is printed on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Federation of Anarchist Communists in Bul- garia, founded in June, 1919 and the 100th anniversary of the birth of our "grandfather", the great Bulgarian anarchist Alexander Nakov, born in August of the same year.
Initiative group "100 years FAB