ÿþ<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-gb"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0"> <meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <title>M. MacDermott - Yane Sandansky - Abstract</title> <style> <!-- p.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-autospace:none; font-size:10.0pt; margin-left:0pt; margin-right:0pt; margin-top:0pt} --> </style> </head> <body> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white" align="left"> <b> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Palatino Linotype; color: black"> <font size="4">FOR FREEDOM AND PERFECTION. </font></span><i> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Palatino Linotype; color: black"> <font size="4">The Life of Yané Sandansky</font></span></i></b><font size="4"><br> <b>Mercia MacDermott </b></span></font> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white"> <span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:&quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white"> &nbsp;</p> <blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Palatino Linotype; color: black"> When the Great Powers dismembered Bulgaria in the last century, artificially creating the  Macedonian Question , they guaranteed that the Balkan Peninsula would become the  powder-keg of Europe.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white"> <span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:&quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Palatino Linotype; color: black"> Eager for national unification and unwilling to submit to Ottoman rule, the Bulgarian population resorted to armed struggle, forming a remarkable network of secret committees known as the Internal Organisation.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white"> <span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:&quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Palatino Linotype; color: black"> This account of the life of the Bulgarian revolutionary, Yané Sandansky, traces his leadership of the most progressive wing of the Organisation, in which he was to play a vital role. Under the influence of socialist ideas it tried to solve the  Macedonian Question , not by war, but by uniting all the Balkan peoples in a common struggle for a better life. <i>For Freedom and Perfection </i>is based on contemporary documents, newspaper reports, memoirs etc, many of which have never been published before, and appear for the first time in an English translation.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white"> <span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:&quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;">&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Palatino Linotype; color: black"> Mercia MacDermott was born in 1927 in Plymouth, the daughter of a Royal Navy surgeon. She was educated at Westonbirt School (Gloucestershire); St Anne s College, Oxford, where she read Russian Literature; and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white"> &nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Palatino Linotype; color: black"> Her previous books include <i>A History of </i></span><i> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Palatino Linotype; color: black"> Bulgaria: 1393-1885 </span></i> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Palatino Linotype; color: black"> (1962); <i>The Apostle of Freedom </i>(1967), a biography of Vasil Levsky; and <i>Freedom or Death, the Life of Gotsé Delchev </i>(1978), for which she received a Bulgarian doctorate, and was also awarded the Paissi Hilendarsky Prize given annually by Sofia University and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.</span></p> </blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white url('')">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white url('')">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white url('')"><font size="3">[<a href="index.htm">Back</a>]</font></p> </body> </html>