Milan Gorkić
| Milan Gorkić | |
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Milan Gorkić photographed shortly after he was arrested by the NKVD in 1937
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| General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia | |
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In office 1932 – 23 October 1937 |
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| Deputy | Josip Broz Tito |
| Preceded by | Đuro Đaković |
| Succeeded by | Josip Broz Tito |
| Member of the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist International | |
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In office 1927 – 23 October 1937 |
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| Personal details | |
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Jozef Čižinsky 19 February 1904 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 1 November 1937 (aged 33) Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Resting place | Donskoy Cemetery, Moscow, Russia |
| Citizenship | Austria-Hungary (until 1918) Yugoslavia (1918-1937) |
| Nationality | Serb |
| Political party | Communist Party of Yugoslavia |
| Other political affiliations |
Comintern |
| Spouse(s) | Berta Glen |
| Children | 1 |
| Occupation | Politician, revolutionary |
| ^1 Đuro Đaković was leader of the CPY until his death in 1929, when all connections within CPY had been disestablished until 1932 when Gorkić took over the leadership. ^2 According to Pero Simić, after Gorkić had been arrested, CPY lost its Central Committee and was expelled from Comintern, which means that nobody succeeded Gorkić as leader of the CPY. | |
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. He was a leader of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) in exile from 1932 until 1937 and prominent member of the Comintern.
Gorkić was executed by the NKVD on 1 November 1937 during the Great Purge.
Gorkić was born Josef Čižinský in 1904 into a Czech family from Austria-Hungary that had settled in Sarajevo five years earlier in 1899. At the time, Bosnia-Herzegovina was still officially a vilayet within the Ottoman Empire though in actuality it was run as an occupational zone and a de facto part of Austria-Hungary.
His father, Vaclav Čižinský was an upholster who earlier held membership in the Social Democratic Party of Czechoslovakia. After a short holiday in his hometown, he brought his wife, Gorkić's mother, Antonija Mimerova to Bosnia and Herzegovina. She worked as a seamstress. In Bosnia and Herzegovina his father worked for the Austrian-Hungarian administration. Gorkić was born in Sarajevo in 1904; his older brother Ladislav (1901) was a machinist and younger brother Bohumil was an architect who lived in Czechoslovakia until 1986.
In 1921, Gorkić's family was deported back to Czechoslovakia, after his father was involved in a strike and accusations of being a communist and a serbophobe. Gorkić was also previously arrested for communist activity, which contributed to his family's deportation.
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