Moša Pijade (Cyrillic: Мoшa Пијаде, alternate English transliteration Moshe Piade; 3 January 1890 [O.S.

22 December 1889][a] – 15 March 1957), was a Serbian and Yugoslav painter, journalist, Communist Party politician, World War II participant, and a close collaborator of Josip Broz Tito.

During the Interwar period in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Pijade was an accomplished painter, but spent almost 15 years in prison because of his communist activity.

After the WWII and creation of socialist Yugoslavia, he became a prominent politician and was the president of the Federal Parliament from 1954 until his death.

[5] In 1913, he moved to Ohrid in then-southern Serbia, where he worked as an art teacher, but also taught French and German.

Next year, he moved back to Belgrade where he worked for the Pravda newspaper until the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Serbia in September 1915.

In 1920, he started to collaborate with the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) newspaper Radničke novine ("Workers' news").

[12] After the ban of IWPY, the CPY tasked Pijade with establishing secret communist print shop in Belgrade.

While in the Lepoglava Prison, Pijade met Josip Broz Tito, who was serving a five-year sentence.

[1] While in the Sremska Mitrovica Prison, Pijade translated Das Kapital by Karl Marx into Serbo-Croatian (under the pseudonym Porobić).

[14] He also translated The Communist Manifesto, The Poverty of Philosophy, and the introduction to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy.

[15] After returning home in 1939, Pijade immediately continued his communist activity, so he was arrested again in January 1940 and took to the Bileća prison.

[1] After release from prison in 1939, Pijade met and then married Lepa Nešić, a widow and member of the CPY.

Under the influence of Pijade and Milovan Đilas, Montenegrin Partisans pursued an extreme form of prosecution of the perceived class enemies and those who were not willing to submit to the communist authority.

[18] Pijade was one of the main organizers of the First session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ) in Bihać in November 1942.

[2] Pijade said that one of the main tasks is to quickly inform the allied public about the AVNOJ session and its decisions, so to win their sympathy for Partisans' cause.

[19] Pijade held high political posts during World War II and was a member of the Central Committee and the Politburo of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, being one of leaders of Tito's partisans.

[20] He continued to maintain an important role in the government of the newly proclaimed Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia.

[21] At the session, AVNOJ was transformed into the Temporary National Assembly and Moše Pijade stayed its vice-president.

[32] On 15 March 1957, Pijade arrived to Paris from London, where he had talks as leader of a Yugoslav parliamentary delegation.

Tito, Lidija Šentjurc (vice-president of the Federal People's Assembly), Miloš Minić and Siniša Stanković gave eulogies.

[36] Following Pijade's death, Federal Executive Council declared five days of national mourning (March 15-19).

[42] A monument in Zagreb, authored by Antun Augustinčić, was unveiled in 1961,[43] placed near an adult education college at the time named after Pijade, but the institution was since renamed and the monument moved in 1993 from that location in Trnje to an unrelated location in Maksimir, near the nursing home named after Lavoslav Schwarz.