Sima Marković (8 November 1888 in
Kragujevac
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,
Kingdom of Serbia
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– 19 April 1939 in
Moscow
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,
USSR
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) was a Serbian mathematician, communist and socialist politician and philosopher, known as one of the founders and first leaders of the
Communist Party of Yugoslavia.
Marković was a doctor of mathematical sciences and a university professor. He has written many works in mathematics, philosophy, physics and politics.
He was an early activist and member of the
Serbian Social Democratic Party in the Kingdom of Serbia, and since the unification of the Yugoslav communists in 1919 a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.
He advocated the preservation and peaceful reform of
Yugoslavia
, common_name = Yugoslavia
, life_span = 1918–19921941–1945: World War II in Yugoslavia#Axis invasion and dismemberment of Yugoslavia, Axis occupation
, p1 = Kingdom of SerbiaSerbia
, flag_p ...
into the republic, as opposed to the then position of the
Comintern. He was killed in
Stalinist purges in 1939 along with many other leading Yugoslav communists. He was rehabilitated on 10 June 1958 by a decision of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union.
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Yugoslav communists
Great Purge victims from Yugoslavia
Soviet rehabilitations
People granted political asylum in the Soviet Union
1888 births
1939 deaths
Executed communists
Members of the Executive Committee of the 1st Congress of the Socialist Labour Party of Yugoslavia (Communists)
Members of the Executive Committee of the 2nd Congress of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia
Members of the Politburo of the 3rd Congress of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia
Members of the Central Council of the 1st Congress of the Socialist Labour Party of Yugoslavia (Communists)
Members of the Central Council of the 2nd Congress of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia
Members of the Central Committee of the 3rd Congress of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia