Edvard Kardelj

Who was Edvard Kardelj?

Edvard Kardelj, also known under the pseudonyms Bevc, Sperans and Krištof, was a journalist and one of the leading members of the illegal Communist Party from Ljubljana, Slovenia before World War II. During the war he was one of the leaders of the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People and a Slovene Partisan, and after the war a federal political leader in Titoist Yugoslavia who led the Yugoslav delegation that negotiated peace talks with Italy over the border dispute in the Julian March. He is considered the main creator of the Yugoslav system of establishing workers' self-management. He was an economist and a full member of both the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts and Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.