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Ljubo Sirc CBE (born April 19, 1920 in Kranj, Slovenia) is a British-Slovene economist and prominent dissident from the former Yugoslavia. ==Life and work== He was born in Kranj, then part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes in a wealthy and renowned family of Slovene and Yugoslav patriots. His grandfather was a liberal and monarchist politician and mayor of Kranj, and his father was a local entrepreneur. After the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia, Sirc managed to escape to Switzerland where he established contact with other Yugoslav emigrants. In Summer 1944, after the Tito-Šubašić agreement, he joined the Yugoslav Resistance and served in the Yugoslav Army in Dalmatia, Croatia, and Slovenia until 1945. After the establishment of the Communist regime he joined other liberals and social democrats who tried to form a legal political opposition to the regime. In 1947, due to his political activity and friendship with Western diplomats, he was tried in the Nagode Trial and sentenced to death. His sentence was ultimately commuted to twenty years in prison, of which he served seven, much of it in solitary confinement. He spent his time in assiduous reading; he became an expert in Marxist political and economic thought, and he was also able to read the most up-to-date Western, especially English and American, economic literature, provided to him by the Slovenian communists in order to translate it for "internal security purposes." After his release, he escaped to Italy with the help of former TIGR member Stanislav Kamenšček. From there, he moved to the United Kingdom, where he started an academic career. In his various teaching posts since then, including twenty years at the University of Glasgow, Sirc has been a leading expert on socialist economics and communist regimes. He is one of the founders of the Centre for Research into Communist Economies (CRCE) in London and as of 2006 its current director. For many years, he lectured in Political Economy at Glasgow University. In 1962, Sirc was among the co-founders of the opposition platform ''Democratic Alternative'', together with a group of Serb, Croat and Bosniak pro-Yugoslav emigrants. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ljubo Sirc」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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