Vladimir Bakarić
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Vladimir Bakarić | |
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Member of the Presidency of Yugoslavia for SR Croatia | |
In office 15 May 1974 – 16 January 1983 | |
Preceded by | Jakov Blažević Đuro Kladarin |
Succeeded by | Mika Špiljak |
5th Speaker of the Croatian Parliament[a] | |
In office December 1953 – December 1963 | |
Prime Minister | Jakov Blažević Zvonko Brkić Mika Špiljak |
Preceded by | |
Succeeded by | |
President of the Executive Council of the People's Republic of Croatia | |
In office 14 April 1945 – 18 December 1953 | |
President | Vladimir Nazor Vicko Krstulović |
Preceded by | Pavle Gregorić (as Minister for Croatia) |
Succeeded by | Jakov Blažević |
Secretary of the League of Communists of Croatia | |
In office 1948 – May 1969 | |
President | Vladimir Nazor Vicko Krstulović Himself Jakov Blažević |
Prime Minister | Himself Jakov Blažević Zvonko Brkić Mika Špiljak Savka Dabčević-Kučar |
Preceded by | Andrija Hebrang |
Succeeded by | Savka Dabčević-Kučar |
Personal details | |
Born | Velika Gorica, Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary (now Croatia) | 8 March 1912
Died | 16 January 1983 Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia | (aged 70)
Nationality | Croatian |
Political party | League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ) |
^a The Speaker of the Parliament was the head of state of SR Croatia between 6 February 1953 and 8 May 1974. |
Vladimir Bakarić (pronounced [ʋlǎdimiːr bǎkarit͡ɕ]; 8 March 1912 – 16 January 1983) was a Yugoslav and Croatian communist revolutionary and a politician.
Bakarić helped to organise the partisan resistance in the Independent State of Croatia during World War II. From 1948 to 1969, he was the chairman of the League of Communists of Croatia and as such was a close collaborator of President Josip Broz Tito. Even after stepping down from the top post in communist hierarchy in the Socialist Republic of Croatia, he retained much influence and was even considered to be the most influential politician in Croatia.
Together with Edvard Kardelj, he belonged to the more liberal wing of the Yugoslav political elite and was known for his statement on the need to "federate the federation" (federiranje federacije), a reference to the struggle between Yugoslav unitarists, who advocated giving more powers to the central government, and federalists, who wanted to shift power to the republics. However, Bakarić was usually extremely careful in his public pronouncements on policy and wary of radical statements.
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- "BAKARIĆ, Vladimir". Croatian Biographical Lexicon (in Croatian). Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography. 1983. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
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