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Tito, Josip Broz

(Encyclopedia)Tito, Josip Broz yô´sp brôz t´t [key], 1892–1980, Yugoslav Communist leader, marshal of Yugoslavia. He was originally Josip Broz. Rise to Power The son of a blacksmith in a Croatian villag...

Popovi, Milentije

(Encyclopedia)Popovi, Milentije mln´ty p´pv´ty [key], 1913–71, Yugoslav politician. Active in the Communist student movement, he became a member of the Yugoslav Communist party in 1939. He jo...

Ribii, Mitja

(Encyclopedia)Ribii, Mitja m´tyä rbch´ch [key], 1919–2013, Yugoslav politician. A Slovenian, he participated in the revolutionary student movement and joined the Communist party in 1941. He was a m...

Kardelj, Edvard

(Encyclopedia)Kardelj, Edvard d´värt kär´dly [key], 1910–79, Yugoslavian politician. A Slovenian schoolteacher, he early joined the Yugoslav Communist party. In 1940 he became a politburo member. He was...

Rankovi, Aleksandar

(Encyclopedia)Rankovi, Aleksandar älksän´där ränkv´ty [key], 1909–83, Yugoslav political leader. A Serbian, he joined the Yugoslav Communist party in 1928 and later became (1937) a member of its c...

Djilas, Milovan

(Encyclopedia)Djilas, Milovan m´lvän j´läs [key], 1911–95, Yugoslav political leader and writer, b. Montenegro. A Communist party member from 1932, he helped Josip Broz Tito organize volunteers to fight...

Gomuka, Wadysaw

(Encyclopedia)Gomuka, Wadysaw vwäds´wäf gmoo´k [key], 1905–82, Polish Communist leader. Long a Communist, he helped establish the Polish Workers' party and was (1943–49) secretary of its centr...

Schipa, Tito

(Encyclopedia)Schipa, Tito t´t sk´pä [key], 1888–1965, Italian operatic tenor. He made his debut in 1910 in Vercelli. After many appearances in Europe, he came to the United States in 1919, joining the C...

Puente, Tito

(Encyclopedia)Puente, Tito (Ernesto Antonio Puente, Jr.)t´t pwn´t [key], 1923–2000, American musician, b. New York City. One of the premier composers and players of Latin music, he was a bandleader, pia...

Mihajlovi, Draža

(Encyclopedia)Mihajlovi、Mihailovi或Mikhailovich,半径标注ž或博士agoljub drä´zhä mh´lôvch, drä´gôlyoob [key], 1893–1946, Yugoslav soldier. He fought with the chetniks, a Serbian guerrilla fo...