Ciliga Ante: Sam kroz Evropu u ratu I. - Drugi svjetski rat u doživljajima vanstranačkog čovjeka.

Ante Ciliga: Alone through Europe in War I.-Second World War in the experiences of a non-party man. 

first edition

With a dated dedication to Antun Bonifačić ​​and the author's signature.

Ciliga, Ante (Antun), politician and publicist (Šegotići, Proština, 20.II.1898 – Zagreb, 21.X.1992). He attended high school in Mostar and Pazin, and graduated in 1917 in Brno, where he had to leave with his family due to the evacuation of the civilian population from southern Istria. Already in 1918, he joined the Social Democratic Party of Croatia in Križevci, where he enrolled in the Higher School of Economics, but left it only a few months later and joined the communists. He fled from the police to Austria and Hungary, then in mid-1919 he returned to Osijek, Zagreb, Varaždin and then went to Kočevje, where he agitated for the creation of Communist Party cells. He escaped again, took refuge in Prague, where he studied philosophy and began In 1920, he founded the Yugoslav Marxist Club. In June 1920, he returned to Šegotiće, and is in Pula and south. He held public assemblies in Istria, trying to expand the activities of left-wing organizations. After his arrest in Trieste, and several months spent in prison, at In 1921, he organized a branch of the Communist Party of Italy in Italy. He was one of the founders and organizers of the → Proštinska buna, and after its collapse he managed to take refuge in Zagreb. He returned to study in Prague via Vienna. After completing his studies, he defended his doctoral dissertation in Marxist philosophy in Zagreb (1924). Because of the intensive commune. activities, he was expelled from the Kingdom of SHS and lived for some time in Vienna, and in 1926 he went to the USSR, where until 1928 he was a lecturer at the Communist University of National Minorities of the West. After that he taught in Leningrad, and in 1929 he was arrested and sent to a Siberian camp. He was released in 1936 because he had tal. citizenship, then he went to Paris, where he turned anti-Soviet and anti-Communist. action (Au pays du grand mensonge, problemes et documents, Paris 1938). He tried to return to Yugoslavia in 1937, but was expelled again, and again in 1941, when he was arrested and imprisoned in Jasenovac. He was released from the camp. In 1942, he became the editor of the Ustasha newspaper Spremnost. In captivity, he wrote a collection of short stories Štorice iz Proština, which he published under the pseudonym Tone Valić (Zagreb 1944). He went to Berlin in 1944, and in the spring of 1945 he managed to enter Switzerland, where he waited for the end of the war. After II. Svj. during the war he lived between Paris and Rome, collaborating with emigrant groups and writing in their journals. Against Yugoslavia. of communism, he published several monographs in his own edition (How long will the Croatian people groan under the Serbian yoke? Discussion on contemporary problems of Croatian politics, Paris 1952), and many articles in the emigrant press, and in Rome he founded, edited and published the magazine On the threshold of tomorrow. He wrote an autobiography. the book Alone through Europe in the War 1939–1945 (Paris 1954, Rome 1978, Pula 1998). He returned to Croatia in 1991, already in his old age.