Životni put učesnika Španskog građanskog rata Svetozara Jovanovića (1897–1941)
THE LIFE PATH OF SVETOZAR JOVANOVIĆ (1897–1941), A PARTICIPANT IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR.

Author(s): Alexander Silkin
Subject(s): History, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije
Keywords: Spanish Civil War; World War II; Svetozar Jovanović; Stefan Pavlovič Bogdanovski; Jozef Bareš; KPJ; Soviet Union; Communist University of National Minorities of the West; Stalinism; Great Terror; NKVD
Summary/Abstract: Based on published and unpublished archival materials, the paper examines the life path of a participant in the Spanish Civil War – the Yugoslav communist Svetozar Jovanović, who was named “Stefan Pavlovič Bogdanovski” in the Soviet Union. His biography is an example of the relationship between the state machine and a “small man” who decided to “play politics”. In the merciless era of World wars, several authoritarian/totalitarian European regimes tried to take away S. Jovanović’s freedom and life, which finally ended in Kiev under German occupation in 1941.

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