Archives of Vicko Krstulović

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Archives of Vicko Krstulović

Vicko Krstulović /born 1905 in Split, Croatia – died 1988 in Split/, worker, participant of the Workers’ movement in the prewar period, participant of the National Liberation War in Yugoslavia, member of the Communist Youth Organization since 1920, member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia since 1922 until he died. During the National Liberation War he was a member of the Presidency of the Anti-Fascist Council of the People's Liberation of Yugoslavia /AVNOJ/. He was meritorious for the creation of the free zone on the Vis Island. The first postwar minister of the interior of Croatia, Communist Party Secretary General since 1945, during the Vladimir Bakarić’s presiding the Croatian Government and Vladimir Nazor’s presiding Parliament of the Republic of Croatia. Acted as a President of the Presidency of Croatian Parliament 1952-1953, a Maritime minister of Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia / FNRJ/ , minister of work and social affairs of FNRJ. Rewarded with the National Hero Medal of the I order, a holder of the Partisan Star Medal.

The archival material, as a legacy of Vicko Krstulovic, was transferred to the Historical Archives of Belgrade by his son Vladimir Krstulović in 1993. The archives of Vicko Krstulović comprises his unpublished manuscripts Vicko Krstulović’s Narrations, notes, separate documents dated from the post-war period, correspondence, medals, photographs. A very rich library with some of the rare publications and the archives of his son Maksim comprise a part of his legacy, too.

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16. Lucia and Vicko Krstulović with children Viborg, Maksim, Nataša in the city Vrlika, Dalmatia, after IV and V offensive, 18 th august 1943.
17. Lucia Krstulović with children Nataša,Viborg and Maksim, Split, 1945.
19. Partisans, companions of Vicko Krstulović, commander of IV Operational Zone and IX division of National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia, 1943.
20. Vicko Krstulović, Svetislav Stefanović-Ćećo and Ante Jurjević-Baja photographed on the Vis Island, 1944.
21. Vladimir Nazor and Vicko Krstulović, Split, 1945.
22. Telegram of Cimbro Petar inviting Vicko Krstulović, President of the Parliament of Croatia, to attend the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Second Dalmatia Military Unit, Virovitica, 1952.
24. Notes of Vicko Krstulović, arranged chronologically, Belgrade, 17th September 1982 to 22nd November 1982.
25. Notes of Vicko Krstulović, arranged chronologically, Belgrade, 18th Sepbember 1984 to 8th November 1984.
26. Dalmatia Woman, a freedom fighter, Year I, No.1, 15th April 1943, published by the Anti-Fascist Movement of Women for Dalmatia, copied and distributed by Agitprop of Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Croatia for Dalmatia.
27. Skender Kulenović, Stojanka, the Mother from Knežpolje, 1944, published by the Propaganda Department of the Regional People’s Liberation Council of Dalmatia.
28. Ivan Goran Kovačić, The Pit, lithographies of Edo Murtić and Zlatko Prica, 1944, 33rd print, published by the Club of the workers in the cultural institutions of Croatia. The work was printed in 250 copies on a plain paper covered by the parachute cloth. The lithographic press was constructed in the partisan workshop. The first 150 copies were originally signed by their authors.