Flashcards: Yugoslav communists

Alija Alijagić (1896 – 8 March 1922) was a Bosnian communist and assassin known for murdering Milorad Drašković.

Kaqusha Jashari (Serbian: Каћуша Јашари/Kaćuša Jašari; born 1945), is a Kosovo Albanian politician and engineer by profession.

Milan Gorkić or Josip Čižinski (born as Josef Čižinský, Serbian: Јосип Чижински; 19 February 1904 – 1 November 1937) was a high-ranking Yugoslav and Serbian communist of Czech origin.

Gavrilo "Gajo" Petrović (Karlovac, 12 March 1927 – Zagreb, 13 June 1993) was one of the main theorists in the Marxist humanist Praxis School in the SFR Yugoslavia.

Stevan Filipović (27 January 1916 – 22 May 1942) was a member of Yugoslavian National Liberation Army and People's Hero of Yugoslavia, who was executed during World War II in Valjevo, Serbia, and is famous for the photo taken of him moments before his execution.

Metodija Andonov-Čento (Macedonian: Методија Андонов Ченто) (August 17, 1902 – July 24, 1957) was a Macedonian statesman, the first president of the Anti-Fascist Assembly of the National Liberation of Macedonia and of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia after the Second World War.

Mustafa Golubić (Serbian Cyrillic: Мустафа Голубић; 24 October 1889–11 June 1941), nicknamed Mujko, was a Bosnian Muslim member of the secret societies Young Bosnia and the Black Hand, as well as a secret agent for the Communist governments of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union.

Veljko Kadijević (Serbian Cyrillic: Вељко Кадијевић; 21 November 1925 – 2 November 2014) was a general of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA).

Edvard Kocbek () (27 September 1904 – 3 November 1981) was a Slovenian poet, writer, essayist, translator, member of Christian Socialists in the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation and Slovene Partisans.

Mahmut Bakalli (19 January 1936 – 14 April 2006) was a Kosovar Albanian politician.

Branko Kostić (Serbian Cyrillic: Бранко Костић, born in 1939) was a Montenegrin Serb politician.

Azem Vllasi (Serbo-Croatian: Azem Vlasi, Азем Власи; born 1948) is a senior Kosovo Albanian politician and lawyer.

Ante Ciliga (20 February 1898 - 21 October 1992) was a Croatian politician, writer and publisher.

Rudi Supek (Zagreb, 8 April 1913 – Zagreb, 2 January 1993) was a Croatian sociologist and a member of the Praxis School of Marxism.

Stevan Dedijer (25 June 1911 – 13 June 2004) was a Yugoslav academic and a pioneer of Business Intelligence.

Đuro Đaković (30 November 1886 in Slavonski Brod – 25 April 1929) was a Yugoslav communist and revolutionary.

Vladimir "Vlatko" Velebit, PhD (1907–2004) was a Yugoslav communist who joined the Partisans in 1941, reaching the rank of Major-General.

Olga Alkalaj (Belgrade, 23 November 1907 — Banjica Concentration Camp, 15 March 1942), was a Yugoslav lawyer, activist for women's rights and a member of the Yugoslav Partisans during World War II.

Vladimir "Senjko" Ćopić (Senj, 8 March 1891 – Moscow, 19 April 1939) was a Croatian politician, communist, one of the leaders of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

Mile Klopčič (16 November 1905 - 19 March 1984) was a Slovenian poet and translator.

Prežihov Voranc (10 August 1893 – 18 February 1950) was the pen name of Lovro Kuhar, a Slovene writer and Communist political activist.

Akif Šeremet (19 September 1895 – 19 April 1939) was a Bosnian communist activist, known as the "Red Professor".

Vladimir Popović Lukin also known as Vlado Popović, was a Montenegrin and Yugoslav diplomat, politician, general, revolutionary, close associate to Josip Broz Tito

Obrad Piljak (Bosnian pronunciation: [ǒbraːt pǐːʎak]); 1933 – 7 April 2013) was a Bosnian politician and former Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from April 1989 to December 1990.

Karlo Štajner (15 January 1902 – 1 March 1992) was a Yugoslavian communist activist and author of Austrian origin and a prominent Gulag survivor.

Mihailo Apostolski (Macedonian: Михаило Апостолски born Mihail Mitev Apostolov Bulgarian: Михаил Митев Апостолов), (November 8, 1906 Štip, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire, present-day Republic of Macedonia - August 7, 1987 Dojran, SFR Yugoslavia, now Republic of Macedonia) was a Yugoslav general, military theoretician, politician, historian, Commander of the Headquarters of the People's Liberation Army and Partisan detachments in Macedonia.

Vera Aceva - Dosta (Oreovec (Prilep), November 24, 1919 - Skopje, November 10, 2006) was a Macedonian communist, participant in the World War II in Yugoslavia and a national hero.

Aco Karamanov (Macedonian: Ацо Караманов) (January 31, 1927 - October 7, 1944) was a Macedonian poet and partisan.