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Stefan Guzvica s book Before The Communist Party of Yugoslavia during the Great Purge (1936 1940) discusses the time of the Great Purge in the Soviet Union as one of the most controversial and under-researched periods in the history of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ). Secrecy has surrounded it because of the executions of most leading members of the party from the interwar era, while its appeal lies in the fact that, at the end of this period in 1939, Josip Broz Tito became the party general secretary, a post he would hold until his death in 1980. Using newly-available archival sources from Moscow, Stefan Guzvica offers the first academic and systematic analysis of this crucial formative period in the history of the KPJ. He presents, in great detail, the downfall of Milan Gorkic , who led the party before Tito, as well as his closest colleagues and rivals, most of whom were swept away in the Purge, such as Ivan Grzetic , Vladimir Copic, and Stjepan Cvijic. Rather than focusing on Tito alone, Guzvica shows that the Comintern considered a wide array of candidates from the Yugoslav party, including Kamilo Horvatin, Ivo Maric, and Petko Miletic, before settling for Tito in earl

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Author

Stefan Gužvica

Publisher

Tallinn University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9789985588765

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Humanities