Edvard Kardelj | |
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![]() Kardelj in 1959 | |
Member of the Presidency of Yugoslavia for SR Slovenia | |
In office 15 May 1974 – 10 February 1979 | |
President | Josip Broz Tito |
Preceded by | Marko Bulc Sergej Kraigher Mitja Ribičič |
Succeeded by | Sergej Kraigher |
7th President of the Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia | |
In office 29 June 1963 – 16 May 1967 | |
Preceded by | Petar Stambolić |
Succeeded by | Milentije Popović |
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia | |
In office 31 August 1948 – 15 January 1953 | |
Prime Minister | Josip Broz Tito |
Preceded by | Stanoje Simić |
Succeeded by | Koča Popović |
Deputy Prime Minister of Yugoslavia | |
In office 2 February 1946 – 29 June 1963 | |
Prime Minister | Josip Broz Tito |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Boris Kraigher Miloš Minić Veljko Zeković |
Personal details | |
Born | Ljubljana, Austria-Hungary | 27 January 1910
Died | 10 February 1979 Ljubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia | (aged 69)
Cause of death | Colon cancer |
Resting place | Tomb of National Heroes, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
Nationality | Slovenian |
Political party | League of Communists of Yugoslavia |
Spouse | |
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 |
Military service | |
Allegiance | ![]() |
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Years of service | 1941–1979 |
Rank | Colonel general |
Battles/wars | World War II in Yugoslavia |
Edvard Kardelj (pronounced [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.[1] 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.[2]