Stipe Šuvar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Stipe Šuvar

Croatian sociologist

Date of Birth: 17-Feb-1936

Place of Birth: Zagvozd, Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia

Date of Death: 29-Jun-2004

Profession: politician, political commissar, university teacher, sociologist

Nationality: Croatia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Stipe Šuvar (17 February 1936 – 29 June 2004) was a leading Croatian and Yugoslav politician and sociologist.
He entered top politics in 1972 being co-opted to the Central Committee (CC) of the League of Communists of Croatia (LCC).
Two years later he became Croatian minister of education and performed a controversial educational reform in Croatia.
In 1980s he was a member of the Presidium of the CC LCC, then a member and chairman the Presidium of the CC of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (LCY).
In 1989 Croatian Parliament elected Šuvar a member of the Presidency of Yugoslavia but dismissed him one year later when, after the first multi-party elections in Croatia, it was already dominated by the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) of Franjo Tudjman.
After the collapse of communism and the end of Communist Yugoslavia, Šuvar founded the magazine Hrvatska ljevica and the Socialist Labour Party of Croatia (SRP).
Šuvar was known as a lifelong Marxist ideologist and opponent of nationalism.
Unlike many other Yugoslav communist officials, he remained a proponent of socialism after the breakup of Yugoslavia.