Filip Filipović (politician)
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Filip Filipović (
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: Филип Филиповић; 21 June 1878 – April 1938) was a Serbian mathematician, communist politician and revolutionary.


Biography


Serbia and Yugoslavia

Filipović was an early activist and member of the Serbian Social Democratic Party in the Kingdom of Serbia, and one of the founders of the Socialist Workers' Party of Yugoslavia (of Communists) (later renamed Communist Party of Yugoslavia) in 1919 and its first political secretary.Ivan Očak, Povratnici iz Sovjetske Rusije u borbi za stvaranje ilegalnih komunističkih organizacija uoči Prvog kongresa SRPJ(k)
/ref> He was elected
Mayor of Belgrade The Mayor of Belgrade ( sr, Градоначелник Београда / ''Gradonačelnik Beograda'') is the head of the City of Belgrade (the capital and largest city of Serbia). The Mayor acts on behalf of the city, and performs an executive f ...
in the first elections in the
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in 1920, but was forcibly removed after a week and soon imprisoned for his revolutionary activity.


Emigration and death

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. During the
Stalinist purges The Great Purge or the Great Terror (russian: Большой террор), also known as the Year of '37 (russian: 37-й год, translit=Tridtsat sedmoi god, label=none) and the Yezhovshchina ('period of Yezhov'), was Soviet General Secreta ...
, he was shot dead along with many other leading Yugoslav communists.


References

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