Milan Gorkić
Milan Gorkić | |
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Milan Gorkić photographed shortly after he was arrested by the NKVD in 1937 | |
| General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia | |
| In office 26 December 1934 – 23 October 1937 | |
| Deputy | Josip Broz Tito |
| Preceded by | Miloš Marković |
| Succeeded by | Josip Broz Tito2 |
| Member of the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Communist International | |
| In office 1927 – 23 October 1937 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Jozef Čižinsky 19 February 1904 |
| Died | 1 November 1937 (aged 33) |
| Resting place | Donskoy Cemetery, Moscow, Russia |
| Citizenship | Austria-Hungary (until 1918)Yugoslavia (1918–1937) |
| Party | Communist Party of Yugoslavia |
| Other political affiliations | Comintern |
| Spouse | Berta Glen |
| Children | 1 |
| Occupation | Politician, revolutionary |
| ^2 According to Pero Simić, after Gorkić had been arrested, CPY lost its Central Committee and was expelled from Comintern, which means that nobody succeeded Gorkić as leader of the CPY. | |
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Milan Gorkić (Cyrillic: Милан Горкић), born as Josef Čižinský (Serbian Cyrillic: Јосип Чижински, romanized: Josip Čižinski; 19 February 1904 – 1 November 1937), was a high-ranking and prominent Yugoslav communist politician and activist. He was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) in exile from 1932 until 1937 and also a prominent member of the Comintern.
Gorkić was executed by the NKVD in the Soviet Union during the Great Purge.