Alia, Ramiz

Alia, Ramiz

▪ president of Albania
born October 18, 1925, Shkodër, Albania

      president of Albania (1982–92) and head of the communist Party of Labour of Albania (1985–91), renamed the Socialist Party of Albania in 1991.

      Alia, the son of Muslim parents from the Albanian-speaking region of Kosovo in what was then Yugoslavia, attended a French secondary school in Tiranë, Albania. During World War II he joined the communist-led National Liberation Movement, and he became a member of the Albanian Communist Party in 1943. At age 19 he was appointed a political commissar, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, in a combat division of the Albanian Partisan forces.

      Immediately after the war Alia occupied leadership posts in the party's youth organization and in its Office of Propaganda and Agitation, and he was elected a member of the Central Committee in 1948 (when the Communist Party was renamed the Party of Labour). After completing advanced studies in the Soviet Union in 1954, Alia rose rapidly under party boss Enver Hoxha (Hoxha, Enver)'s patronage, serving as minister of education from 1955 to 1958. He became a candidate member of the party's powerful Politburo in 1956, and in 1961 he joined Hoxha's inner circle by becoming a full member of the Politburo and a member of the party's Secretariat.

      As the party's chief spokesman on ideological and cultural issues, Alia played a prominent role in bitter disputes over the “revisionism” of Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, and China—three communist allies from which Hoxha broke away in 1948, 1961, and 1978, respectively. At home Alia led campaigns to purge the artistic and intellectual communities of “bourgeois humanism” and other “alien influences” that threatened Albania's independence and the purity of its official Marxist-Leninist ideology.

      Alia became the titular head of state in 1982 when he was elected president by the People's Assembly, and he became the effective ruler of Albania upon his election as the party's first secretary two days after Hoxha's death in April 1985. Although constrained by Hoxha's legacy of isolation, Alia began to expand ties with neighbours in western as well as eastern Europe in order to acquire foreign exchange, technology, and technical expertise. Faced with chronic inefficiencies in both industry and agriculture, he also instituted limited economic reforms and relaxed the party's tight grip on Albanian society. This liberal policy led to the unexpected electoral successes of democratic parties. On April 3, 1992, he resigned as president.

      In 1993 Alia, along with other former leading communist officials, was convicted of corruption and sentenced to nine years in prison. He was released in 1995, and his conviction was overturned in 1997.

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