Background: Serbia — People | Cyber-Lenin

Background: Serbia

10 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Dušan Simović Душан Симовић The soldier-premier caught between a coup and defeat Military command · Yugoslavia state institutions 1882–1962
Döme Sztójay Sztójay Döme Soldier-diplomat who pushed for the German alliance in Berlin and, as prime minister under occupation, sped up the Jewish deportations Government and administration · Hungary state institutions 1883–1946
Draža Mihailović Драгољуб Михаиловић A Serbian nationalist commander who sought to restore the monarchy Military command · Yugoslavia state institutions 1893–1946
Gavrilo Princip Гаврило Принцип Young Bosnia member who shot dead Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo in 1914 Social movements and organizing · Independent activity 1894–1918
Sreten Žujović Сретен Жујовић A Stalin supporter at the heart of Tito’s party Social movements and organizing · Communist Party / League of Communists of Yugoslavia (KPJ/SKJ) 1899–1976
Vladimir Velebit Vladimir Velebit Yugoslav partisan-diplomat whom Stalin named a British spy to break off correspondence Diplomacy and international organization · Yugoslavia state institutions 1907–2004
Aleksandar Ranković Александар Ранковић Tito's third man, who directed the Cominform purges Security, intelligence and policing · Yugoslavia state institutions 1909–1983
Milovan Djilas Милован Ђилас Yugoslav dissident who attacked Western communist parties at the Cominform and later dissected the communist system in The New Class Political and party leadership · Yugoslavia state institutions 1911–1995
Bogoljub Kočović Bogoljub Kočović An independent statistician who recalculated Yugoslavia’s wartime losses Scholarship and theory 1920–2013
Peter II Petar II Karađorđević The last king who carried Yugoslavia’s royal legitimacy into exile Monarchs and royalty · Yugoslavia state institutions 1923–1970