Dimitrije Tucović
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| Dimitrije Tucović Димитрије Туцовић |
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 Dimitrije Tucović
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| Born | 13th May, 1881 Gostilje, Zlatibor |
| Died | 1914 Vrače Brdo |
| Occupation | politician |
Dimitrije Tucović (Serbo-Croatian: Dimitrije Tucović, Димитрије Туцовић) (13 May 1881, Gostilje — 1914, Vrače Brdo) was a Yugoslavian social democrat and leader of the left faction of the Social Democratic Party of Serbia. He was the editor of Borba, the organ of the SDPS. Writing of the bloodiness of the Serbian takeover of Kosovo from Turkey, he stated,
We have carried out the attempted premeditated murder of an entire nation. We were caught in that criminal act and have been obstructed. Now we have to suffer the punishment.... In the Balkan Wars, Serbia not only doubled its territory, but also its external enemies.[1]
He died on the frontlines in World War I. He has a square named after him, Dimitrije Tucović Square in Belgrade.
Tucović was already an adherent to socialist ideas when he came to Belgrade in 1899 to finish high school. He agitated for socialism with Radovan Dragović, who was a big influence on him. In 1901, the Belgrade Workers' Society was renewed and Tucović recreated a socialist group of gymnasium students and became one of the leaders of the Society. He attempted to create modern unions.
In 1902 he organised student demonstrations in the Senate against Nikola Pašić. With Tucović's and Dragović's help, the "Panel for Movement Leadership" was created again and they made the "Central Committee", with a goal of setting the grounds for creating a party. Tucović led the March demonstrations against King Aleksandar Obrenović on the 5th March, 1903. He was forced to emigrate to Zemun, and afterwards to Vienna.
On the 2nd August, 1903, the Social-Democratic Party was formed. The editor of the their newspaper, "Worker's Newspaper" was Tucović. During the Second Congress of a workers union SSDP (1904), Tucović gave a lecture on union organisations.
In 1906, he got a law degree at the University of Belgrade, with excellent result. After coming back from Berlin, he gave up on his doctorate and started spending his time in socialist and labour movement, as a secretary of SSDP.
In 1910, the party established a theory magazine Borba — Tucović was the editor. He participated at the International Socialist Congress in Copenhagen the same year and gave an important speech criticizing the position that Austrian social-democrats took on the national issue, especially the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In a debate with Karl Rener he pointed out the colonial-enslaving politics of Austro-Hungary and the fact that social-democrats were supporting the government on the issue.
He died as a member of Morava division in November of 1914 in a battle against Austro-Hungarian army in the First World War, at Ljig's bank.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Gallagher, T. (2006)
[edit] References
- Gallagher, T. (2006) The Balkans in the New Millennium: In the Shadow of War and Peace (Routledge) ISBN 0415349400
