Stipe Šuvar

Stipe Šuvar (17 February 1936 – 29 July 2004) was a leading Croatian and Yugoslav sociologist and politician. Ostensibly the most prominent Yugoslav minister of education and culture of all times, he was also a titular leader of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from 1988 to 1989. After the collapse of socialism in Yugoslavia, he remained politically active in his native Croatia and founded the Socialist Labour Party of Croatia (SRP) on 25 October 1997, the first and still the largest socialist party in independent Croatia. Šuvar resigned as party president in 2004, shortly before his death.