Kosta Novaković
Kosta Novaković Коста Новаковић | |
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USSR | |
Political party | Serbian Social Democratic Party |
Kosta Novaković (
USSR) was a Serbian and Yugoslav socialist politician, journalist and professor and one of the most prominent in the Serbian left-wing politics of the 20th century.[1]
He was a prominent member of the
Communist Party of Yugoslavia
.
He was the editor of the leftist newspapers "Radnicke novine", "Radnik" and "Borba". As a Serbian soldier, he was in Albania during the Balkan Wars, informing the public about the atrocities committed there.[2]
His most significant literary work is "Macedonia to Macedonians, Land to the Peasants", for which he was sentenced to prison by the authorities of Kingdom of Yugoslavia. After the ban of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia legal activity he emigrated from the Kingdom of Yugoslavia to the Soviet Union, where he continued his political actions.[3]
During the
Stalinist purges
in 1939, he was shot dead along with many other leading Yugoslav communists.
References
- ^ "Tito sudi - Staljin strelja". www.novosti.rs.
- ISBN 9780817984038– via Google Books.
- ^ "Čačani: Kosta Novaković". radiodzenarika.net. Archived from the original on 10 September 2012.