Germany. During the struggle for leadership of the KPJ, Josip Broz Tito was an agent of the NKVD, the Soviet secret police. In order to replace Gorkić , Tito submitted a report about Gorkić to the NKVD. Gorkić received an emergency call from the Comintern in Moscow to return and make a report in June 1937. He was accused of being a British spy. On 23 October he was arrested and imprisoned in Lubyanka. On 1 November Gorkić was executed. After Tito took leadership over the KPJ, Gorkić was posthumously expelled from the party. His wife Betti Glan, director of the Park of Culture in Moscow, was soon arrested as well; she was released in 1954 and rehabilitated in 1955. During the Great Purge, a large number of communists from Yugoslavia resided in the Soviet Union. Hundreds of them were arrested and executed without any trial under accusation that they were either spies or Trotskyists. Communists who led the KPJ before Gorkić, Filip Filipović (1938), Sima Marković (1937), Đuka Cvijić (1937), Jovan Mališić (1938) and Antun Mavrak (1938) were also executed during the purge. After Joseph Stalin's death, the Soviet Union rehabilitated Gorkić. Works Gorkić is author of a brochure Communists and the Croatian question (Komunisti i hrvatsko pitanje, 1934), but the content of the brochure remains unknown, even though the Communist Party of Yugoslavia ordered its printing in December 1934. References Notes Bibliography 1904 births 1937 deaths Politicians from Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina communists Bosnia and Herzegovina people of Czech descent Czech communists Yugoslav communists Yugoslav expatriates in the Soviet Union Executive Committee of the Communist International Great Purge victims from Yugoslavia Executed Bosnia and Herzegovina people Burials at Donskoye Cemetery Soviet rehabilitations People granted political asylum in the Soviet Union Executed communists