The great Russian-American writer Masha Gessen was standing on the stage at Bard College in New York in front of a sign that read "Crises of Democracy." It was
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From being the literary darling of Bulgaria’s communist regime, Georgi Markov became its most vociferous critic. Yet his memory, in so far it exists at all, has been reduced to his spectacular assassination in London. On Markov’s work and the lives of the man behind it.