Kosta Novaković (

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: Коста Новаковић; 3 June 1886 in

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– 1939 in

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) was a Serbian and Yugoslav socialist politician, journalist and professor and one of the most prominent in the Serbian left-wing politics of the 20th century. He was a prominent member of the Serbian Social Democratic Party in the

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and one of the founders and leaders of the

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. He was the editor of the leftist newspapers "Radnicke novine", "Radnik" and " Borba". As a Serbian soldier, he was in Albania during the

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, informing the public about the atrocities committed there. His most significant literary work is "Macedonia to Macedonians, Land to the Peasants", for which he was sentenced to prison by the authorities of

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. 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. Kosta novakovic

During the

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in 1939, he was shot dead along with many other leading Yugoslav communists.

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