Vladimir Bakarić

Vladimir Bakaric (Cyrillic Владимир Бакарић; born March 8, 1912 in Velika Gorica; † January 16, 1983 in Zagreb) was a politician in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Life

Vladimir Bakaric was during his studies in law at the University of Zagreb in the 1930s communist student leader; he received his doctorate 1937. After the occupation of Yugoslavia by the German Wehrmacht, he was one of the organizers of the Yugoslav People's Liberation Army. There he worked as a political commissar, at the second session of AVNOJ in November 1943 in Jajce, he was appointed member of the National Liberation Committee. He was a close confidant of President Josip Broz Tito in 1948 and a member of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia ( BDKJ ). As the successor of the deposed Andrija Hebrang he was in 1948 the Croatian party chief.

He was together with Edvard Kardelj, with whom he was friends, to the liberal wing of the party. In February 1948, both were the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, in June 1948 there was a split between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, whose leadership insisted on an independent path and Stalinism refused. Bakaric ended then in Croatia, the forced collectivization of agriculture.

He was one of the initiators of the economic reform of 1964 /65. 1966 Bakaric was involved in the overthrow of the Yugoslav Minister of the Interior Aleksandar Ranković, who had Stalinist and Serbian nationalist tendencies. During the Croatian mass movement (so-called Croatian Spring ) he took a balancing between centralists and Croat nationalist attitude.

Honors

Works

• Socijalisticki samoupravni sistem i Drustvena reprodukcija; German translation: The theoretical foundations of social reproduction under socialism, 1975
• The continuation of the policies of Tito 's our only alternative, in: Socialist Theory and Practice, May 1980, pp. 11-27