ANTE CILIGA (1898-1992): ŽIVOT NA POVIJESNIM RASKRIŽJIMA
ANTE CILIGA (1898-1992): A LIFE AT HISTORY'S CROSSROADS

Summary/Abstract: ln the article the author analyzes the political biography of one of the most interesting political figures of 20th century Croatian history. Ciliga started out as a radical nationalist, then joined the labor movement and Bolshevism, yet continued advocating the Croatian people's right to self-determination. After detention in Stalin's camps, he joined in the fight against Stalinism together with the anarchists and other ultra-radical activists, and later the Trotskyists. However, after establishing contacts with the social democrats, Ciliga had political and theoretical clashes even with Trotsky himself. Following the paths of diferrent ideologies and polltlcal orlentattons: Marxism, Bolshevism, Menshevism, Stalinism, Trotskyism, social democracy, anarchism, Yugoslavianism and Croatian nationalism, during his tumultuous life which lasted for almost a century, Ciliga met with many leading figures of the ideologies mentioned which earmarked modern history.

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