Edvard Kardelj
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Key facts
- President
- Josip Broz Tito
- Preceded by
- Marko Bulc, Sergej Kraigher , Mitja Ribičič
- Succeeded by
- Sergej Kraigher
- Prime minister
- Josip Broz Tito
- Born
- ( 1910-01-27 ) 27 January 1910, Ljubljana , Austria-Hungary
- Died
- 10 February 1979 (1979-02-10) (aged 69), Ljubljana, Slovenia , Yugoslavia
- Cause of death
- Colon cancer
- Resting place
- Tomb of National Heroes , Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Party
- League of Communists of Yugoslavia
- Spouse
- Pepca Maček ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 15 August 1939</span>"}]]}'>1939 )
- Children
- Borut Kardelj
- Relatives
- Ivan Maček (brother-in-law)
- Alma mater
- Ljubljana Teachers' College, International Lenin School , Communist University of the National Minorities of the West
- Nickname s
- Bevc, Krištof, Sperans
- Allegiance
- Yugoslavia
- Branch service
- Yugoslav Partisans , Yugoslav People's Army
- Years of service
- 1941–1979
- Rank
- Colonel general
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Edvard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Democratic Federal Yugoslavia
- Place of birth
- Ljubljana
- Place of death
- Ljubljana
- Spouse
- Pepca Kardelj
- Occupation
- teacher
- Position held
- League of Communists of Slovenia
- Educated at
- International Lenin School
- Political party
- League of Communists of Slovenia
- Languages spoken
- Serbian
- Religion
- atheism
- Participant in
- Assembly of the Delegates of the Slovene Nation
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Sciences
- Conflict
- World War II in Yugoslavia
- Military rank
- colonel general
- Image
- Edvard Kardelj in 1959.jpg
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- Commons category
- Edvard Kardelj
- date of birth
- 1910-01-27
- date of death
- 1979-02-10
- cause of death
- Colorectal cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Edvard Kardelj
- relative
- Ivan Maček
- medical condition
- Colorectal cancer
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Encyclopedic overview
Edvard Kardelj ( Slovene: [ˈéːdʋaɾt kaɾˈdéːl]; 27 January 1910 – 10 February 1979), also known by the pseudonyms Bevc, Sperans, and Krištof, was a Yugoslav politician and economist. He was one of the leading members of the Communist Party of Slovenia before World War II. During the war, Kardelj was one of the leaders of the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People and a Slovene Partisan. After the war, he was a federal political leader in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He led the Yugoslav delegation in peace talks with Italy over the border dispute in the Julian March.
Kardelj was the main creator of the Yugoslav system of workers' self-management. He was an economist and a full member of both the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He also played a major role in foreign policy by designing the fundamental ideological basis for the Yugoslav policy of nonalignment in the 1950s and the 1960s.
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