Неформалите 1987-1990
‘Informals’ of 1987-1990

Summary/Abstract: The author presents two autobiographical fragments from the book under print by RIVA Publishing House entitled Participant. An Unsumming-up of a Personal Political Practice – in opposition to the Bulgarian communist regime. The first fragment deals with the foundation of the Club for support of glasnost and perestroyka, of which the author was a co-founder.The chief issue discussed is why that pro-dissident organization of intellectuals, brainchild of Dr. Zheliu Zhelev (future President of democratic Bulgaria), and thanks to him declaring concern with human rights, was so reluctant to support the cause of the Bulgarian Muslims (who had been foreefully deprived of their names by the totalitarian state), to the extent that the author left that organization to do HR work in other formats. The second fragment is the author’s take on the story of Eco-glasnost (which he also co-founded), an opposition group that did real environmental work, but was treated by the regime as politicl enemy. The author believes that among Bulgarian civic groups, Eco-glasnost has been the most successful and influential cooperation of intellectuals ever; there’s an analysis why it didn’t survive after the fall of communism.

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