Boris Kidrič

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Boris Kidrič
Prime Minister of Slovenia
In office
5 May 1945 – June 1946
PresidentJosip Vidmar
Preceded byPosition Established
Succeeded byMiha Marinko
Personal details
Born10 April 1912
Yugoslavia
Political partyLeague of Communists
Boris Kidrič burial in 1953.

Boris Kidrič (10 April 1912 – 11 April 1953) was a Slovene and Yugoslav politician and revolutionary who was one of the chief organizers of the

anti-Fascist liberation struggle in Slovenia between 1941 and 1945. After World War II he was, together with Edvard Kardelj, a leading Slovenian politician in communist Yugoslavia.[1]

Early life

Kidrič was born in Vienna, then capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as the son of the prominent Slovene liberal literary critic France Kidrič.[2] He became a communist while still a teenager, aged fifteen, and was arrested for his writings, as well as for organisational and agitative work among Slovene factory workers, subsequently serving a year's prison term before having even reached the age of twenty.[2]

Political career

In the early 1930s, Kidrič was drafted by the communist publicist

Communist Party of Slovenia in 1937. While in Vienna, where the CPY's Central Committee was based for a time, he was arrested by Austrian police in 1936 following an increase in pressure on communists by Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg.[3]

During the

leftist errors.[4] He also led a successful resistance movement within the Slovene Partisans.[2]

After the end of

Yugoslav republics.[6]

Kidrič attended negotiations in Moscow following the end of the war, and then noted that the Soviet government under Joseph Stalin perceived Yugoslavia not as an equal socialist state, but as a part of its own sphere of influence.[7] In the fall of 1950, he was recorded as having spoken of being "duped" by the Soviets in the past.[8]

He became a member of the Yugoslav Politburo in 1948, and was in charge of the Yugoslav economy from 1946 until his death.

Alongside

workers' self-management. These and other reforms were meant to win popular support, and involve the working people more intimately in government and economy, in contrast to the then-prevailing Stalinist form of socialism. Kidrič, in an influential speech, said that the working masses had to “have their say directly and daily, and not only by way of the vanguard of their political parties."[9]

Kidrič was also the main architect of the first

Yugoslav republics, a chronic issue that would haunt Yugoslavia for the entirety of its history; in connection to this, Kidrič said that the foundational privilege brotherhood and unity "categorically demands elimination of this unevenness."[9]

In 1953, he died from leukemia in Belgrade.

Honours and awards

He was awarded the

National Institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana was named after him and until 1990 the main award for scientific achievements in Slovenia was called "Kidrič Prize".[citation needed
] Consequently, there was also a Boris Kidrič Fund, which was based in Ljubljana.

Among the foreign decorations were the

Institute for Physics, near Belgrade, was renamed in his honour.[10]

Political offices
Preceded by
Minister for Slovenia
Edvard Kocbek
 Prime Minister of Slovenia
5 May 1945–1 June 1946 		Succeeded by

References

  1. ISBN 9780810872165
    .
  2. ^ a b c "Boris Kidric, visionary architect of Yugoslavia's socialist alternative". Morning Star. 24 November 2021. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
  3. ISSN 0022-0094
    .
  4. ^ Banac 1988, pp. 82, 83.
  5. ^ Poberšič, Renato, & Damjan Hančič. 2012. Povojne zaplembe judovskega premoženja. Irena Šuni & Hannah Starman (eds.), Slovenski Judje: zgodovina in holokavst, pp. 283–292. Maribor: Center judovske kulturne dediščine Sinagoga Maribor, p. 285.
  6. ISBN 978-3-7001-8198-9
    , retrieved 9 October 2023
  7. ISSN 0030-6428
    .
  8. ISSN 1049-7544
    .
  9. ^
    ISBN 978-1-55753-838-3
    , retrieved 9 October 2023
  10. ^ "Vinca Special Weapons Facilities - Serbia". Retrieved 2 January 2011.

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