Tashkovski, Dragan (Skopje, 10. 1917 – Hvar, September 1980) – Historian and publicist. Primary and secondary education ended in Skopje, and graduated from the High School of Political Science in Belgrade. Defended habilitation work entitled “to the ethnogenesis of the Macedonian people” (Skopje, 12. ⅳ 1975) and was elected in the title of the Senior Scientific Associate. He was a participant in NOVM, and after the liberation performed various socio-political functions: teacher and director of the Political School of the CC of SCM, a professor of sociology of the agricultural and forestry and medical faculty in Skopje, president of the company of philosophers and sociologists of the SRM, President of the Commission of the Executive Committee of the Presidency of the CCM for ideological and political training of the organizations and members of the SCM, director of the Institute for Sociological and Political and Legal Research in Skopje. BIB.: To the Bogomil movement, Skopje, 1949; Marxism and Religion, Skopje, 1950; Karposovo Uprising, Skopje, 1951; Samoil Kingdom, Skopje, 1951; Bogomilism and its historical significance, Skopje, 1951; Akindine in the fight against mysticism, Skopje 1955; Religion opium for the people, Skopje, 1955; Fjordism and Marxism, Skopje, 1959; The Truth of Religion, Skopje, 1959 (translation of Albanian, 1960); The birth of the Macedonian nation (second-supplementary edition), Skopje, 1967 (Slovenian translation 1968 and Serbian 1969); Ethnogenesis of the Macedonian people, Skopje, 1974; For the Macedonian nation, Skopje, 1976; Macedonia over the centuries, Skopje, 1985; For the Macedonian nation, Skopje, 1975 (translation of Serbian-Croatian 1975). S. Ml.
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