Edvard Kardelj

Edvard Kardelj

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, and after the war, he was a federal political leader in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and led the Yugoslav delegation in peace talks with Italy over the border dispute in the Julian March. He was the main creator of the Yugoslav system of workers' self-management. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edvard Kardelj has received more than 218,816 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Edvard Kardelj is the 3,839th most popular politician (down from 3,259th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Slovenia (down from 11th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Slovene Politician.

Edvard Kardelj was a Yugoslavian communist who was instrumental in the formation of the Non-Aligned Movement. He was one of the leading theoreticians of the Yugoslavian Communist Party and was also a member of the party's Politburo.