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Georgi Dimitrov , 1882-1949, Bulgarian Communist leader. A revolutionary from boyhood, he was a leader in the 1923 Communist uprising against Alexander Tsankov . When it failed, he fled Bulgaria and continued to work for the Communist cause. In 1933 he was arrested in Berlin for alleged complicity in setting the Reichstag on fire. Dimitrov's cool conduct of his defense and the accusations he directed at his prosecutors won him world renown. He was acquitted and went to the USSR, which conferred citizenship upon him. Dimitrov was secretary-general of the Comintern from 1934 until its dissolution in 1943. In 1944 he returned to Bulgaria to head the Communist party there, and in 1946 he succeeded Kimon Georgiev as premier. Dimitrov died in Moscow, where he was undergoing medical treatment.

Bibliography: See his The United Front (1938) and Selected Works (3 vol., 1972); J. D. Bell, The Bulgarian Communist Party from Blagoev to Zhivkov (1985).

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Dimitrov, Georgi (1882–1949) Bulgarian communist leader. From 1929 he was head of the Bulgarian sector of the COMINTERN in Berlin. When the REICHSTAG was burned (1933) he was accused with other communists of complicity. His powerful defence at his trial forced the Nazis to release him and he settled in Moscow. In 1945 he was appointed head of the communist government in BULGARIA, which led to the setting up of the Bulgarian People's Republic (1946) under his premiership, a period marked by ruthless Sovietization.

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