Stipe Šuvar
| Stipe Šuvar | |
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| 12th Chairman of the Presidium of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia | |
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In office June 30, 1988 – May 17, 1989 |
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| Preceded by | Boško Krunić |
| Succeeded by | Milan Pančevski |
| 20th Vice-President of the Presidency of SFR Yugoslavia | |
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In office May 15, 1990 – August 24, 1990 |
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| President | Borisav Jović |
| Preceded by | Borisav Jović |
| Succeeded by | Stjepan Mesić |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
February 17, 1936 Zagvozd, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Died | June 29, 2004 (aged 68) Zagreb, Croatia |
| Nationality | Croatian |
| Political party | League of Communists of Yugoslavia (1955–1990), Socialist Labour Party of Croatia (1997–2004) |
| Spouse(s) | Mira Šuvar |
Stipe Šuvar (February 17, 1936 – June 29, 2004) was a leading Croatian and Yugoslav politician and sociologist. He entered top politics in 1972 being co-opted to the Central Committee (CC) of the League of Communists of Croatia (LCC). Two years later he became Croatian minister of education and performed a controversial educational reform in Croatia. In 1980s he was a member of the CC LCC Presidium, then a member and chairman the Presidium of the CC of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (LCY). In 1989 Croatian Parliament elected Šuvar a member of the Presidency of Yugoslavia but dismissed him one year later when, after the first multi-party elections in Croatia, it was already dominated by Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) of Franjo Tudjman. After the collapse of socialism and of Yugoslavia, Šuvar founded the magazine Hrvatska ljevica and the Socialist Labour Party of Croatia (SRP). Šuvar was known as a lifelong Marxist ideologist and opponent of nationalism. Unlike many other Yugoslav communist officials, he remained a proponent of socialism after the breakup of Yugoslavia.
Šuvar was born in 1936 in the Dalmatian village of Zagvozd. At the age of 19, he joined the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. He studied at the Law Faculty in Zagreb, where he received a sociology doctorate in 1965. From 1960 through till the 1980s he taught sociology at the University of Zagreb and at other universities in Yugoslavia and published a number of books on both sociological and political topics.
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