About Ante Ciliga
Ante Ciliga (20 February 1898 – 21 October 1992) was a Croatian politician, writer and publisher. Ciliga was one of the earliest leaders of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ). Imprisoned in Stalin's Gulags in the 1930s as part of the Great Purge, he later became an ardent Croatian nationalist, anti-communist and ideologue of the fascist Ustaše movement. == Early life == He was born in the small Istrian village of Šegotići (part of Marčana). Istria was then the Austrian Littoral (now in Croatia). The contingencies of history were such that Ciliga, Croat by language and culture, was successively an Austrian citizen until 1919 and then an Italian citizen until 1945. Coming from a family of Croat peasants, his grandfather shared with the young boy "the interest which he showed in Croatian culture and in the struggles for national emancipation directed against the urban Italian bourgeoisie and the German-Austrian administration". === Party work === Between 1918 and 1921 Ciliga was studying at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, in Prague. Intrigued by the October Revolution in Russia, he began a Yugoslav Marxist Club and started editing newspapers such as Komunist and Rudé právo. In early spring of 1919 Ciliga participated in the Hungarian Soviet Republic revolution, and on orders of the Yugoslav communist section SRPJ(k) in May 1919 he was sent to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as Yugoslavia) where he participated in a military revolt in Varaždin.
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