Kidrich, Boris

Born in the family of Professor Frank Kidrich, a famous Slovenian cultural figure and literary historian. He entered a secondary school in Ljubljana, and then studied chemistry in depth in Ljubljana and Prague.

At an early age, joined the youth labor movement. In 1928 he joined the Komsomol organization, and later that same year became a member of the Communist Party. In November 1929 he was arrested for his communist beliefs and sentenced to one year in prison, serving his sentence in prison in Maribor.

After his release from prison in 1931, he became a student (Department of Chemistry) and, together with Edward Kardel and other Slovenian Communists, restored the work of the provincial committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in Slovenia and worked on the restoration of party organizations that were defeated in the early years of the dictatorship. In 1932, they were able to restore party organization in most cities and industrial facilities in Slovenia, and Kidrich also participated in the publication of party newspapers and magazines.

In mid-September 1934, he participated in the fourth regional conference of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in Slovenia, at which he met Josip Broz Tito.

In December 1934, he participated as a delegate from Slovenia at the National Conference of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, held in the city of Ljubljana, where he was elected a candidate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

At the beginning of 1935, on the initiative of Josip Broz Tito, he was nominated as secretary of the interim leadership of the Communist Youth of Yugoslavia, but was again arrested until mid-May of that year. Then transferred from Ljubljana to Zagreb.

In mid-July 1935 he was elected secretary of the Komsomol Central Committee.

As secretary of the Komsomol Central Committee, he led the Yugoslav delegation at the VI Congress of the Communist International of Youth, which took place at the end of September and in October 1935 in Moscow. From there, on behalf of the Central Committee in November 1935 he went to Vienna, where he took part in the work of the Central Committee, and in particular, to implement the decisions of the Sixth Congress of the Communist International of Youth. In Vienna, he worked on a dissertation and a number of other documents that presented new ideas on the reorganization of the Union of Communist Youth of Yugoslavia.

In mid-June 1936, he was arrested with a group of prominent Yugoslav Communists in Vienna, spent a year in custody, and then was expelled to Czechoslovakia. For some time he lived in Prague, and in the autumn of 1937 he moved to Paris, where he was the center of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

After the outbreak of World War II, in the fall of 1939, he returned to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Immediately upon arrival, he was arrested and spent four months in prison, then he was released. He worked on strengthening the Communist Party of Slovenia and in 1940 was one of the organizers of the “Friendship Association of the Soviet Union”.

In October 1940, he participated in the fifth National Conference of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in Zagreb and was elected a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

Immediately after the occupation of Yugoslavia, he was one of the main initiators and organizers of the Constituent Assembly of the Liberation Front of Slovenia, held on April 27, 1941. years, at which he was elected political secretary of the Executive Council of the Liberation Front. He was one of the organizers of the national liberation struggle in Slovenia.

In June 1941, he was elected commissar of the General Staff of the Slovene National Liberation Movement detachment and remained in this position until the end of the war.

In May 1945 he became the first Prime Minister of Slovenia.

Since June 1946 - Minister of Industry in the Government of the SFRY, then was President of the Planning Commission or Economic Council under the Government of the SFRY. He was elected a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the People's Republic of Slovenia and the SFRY Assembly and a member of the Presidium of the Federal Committee of the Socialist Union of the Working People of Yugoslavia.

At the Fifth Congress of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, held in June 1948 in Belgrade, he was elected a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, and at the Sixth Congress of Communists of Yugoslavia, held in November 1952 in Zagreb, he was elected a member of the Executive Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine and a member of the Secretariat of the Executive Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.

April 11, 1953 died of leukemia. He was buried in the grave of the national hero, which is located in the park behind the building of the National Assembly of Slovenia in the center of Ljubljana.

1. The nature of commodity relations in the Federal Republic of Socialist Republic, 1949
2. Theses on the transition economy in our country, 1950

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