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Edvard Kardelj

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Yugoslav politician (1910–1979)

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Born
1910
Died
1979
Works
54

Top works

  • Constitution de la République Fédérative Populaire de Yougoslavie
  • Las bases sociales y políticas de la R.F.P. de Yugoslavia y ley constitucional
  • Ustavni zakon o saveznim i rerpubličkim organima vlasti
  • O poljoprivredi, selu i zadrugarstvu
  • Über das System der selbstverwaltenden Planung

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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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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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Edvard Kardelj” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.