| LC control no. | n 80121069 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Pirinski, Georgi |
| Variant(s) | Nicoloff, George Pirinsky, George Pirinski, Georgi, Senior Pirinski, Georgi, Sr. Zaikoff, George Zaikoff, Nicholas I. Zajkov, Georgi Zajkov, Geo Zaykov, Georgi Zykoff, George |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1901-08-05 |
| Death date | 1992-12-07 |
| Place of birth | Bansko (Bulgaria) |
| Place of death | Sofia (Bulgaria) |
| Found in | His Slavic Americans ... 1946: title page (George Pirinsky) page 61 (George Pirinsky, New York, N.Y.) The History of Bulgaria, 2011: page 167 (Georgi Pirinski Sr. (1901-1992); prominent Communist who fled to the United States after the 1923 September Uprising; in America, he became a member of the Communist Party USA and executive secretary of the American Slavic Committee; expelled from the United States in 1951; moved to Bulgaria where his wife became professor of English at Sofia University) Chutzpah and naïveté, : page 37 (Georgi Pirinski; Bulgarian Communist; fled to the United States in 1923; named himself Pirinski after the area of Bulgaria where he was born; member of the American Communist Party and secretary of the American Slavic Committee; never became American citizen; forced to return to Bulgaria in 1950) Historical dictionary of Bulgaria, 2015: page 382 (Pirinski (Senior), Georgi; real name: Georgi Nikolov Zaykov; Communist activist; born in Bansko on 5 August 1901; emigrated to the United States in 1923; arrested in 1951 on charges of communist activities and sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment or extradition; expelled to Bulgaria in 1953, where he held important positions in the Committee for Bulgarians Abroad and the Peace Committee; died 7 December 1992 in Sofia) Cumulative index to Publications of the Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-1954, 1962: page 673 (Pirinsky, George; born Zykoff or Zaikoff; also known as Nicoloff; Nicholas I. Zaikoff) Historical dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia, 2009: page 176 (Pirinski, Georgi; "Georgi "Geo" Nikolov Zajkov (1901-1992; Communist activist; born in Bansko, Pirin Macedonia; emigrated to the United States in the early 1920s; extradited to Bulgaria in 1951) |
| Associated language | eng bul |
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