Abstract: Josip Broz Tito's singular leadership achievement was to create a Communist Yugoslavia forged in the turmoil of wartime invasion in 1941, the clash of regional loyalties, and ideological conflict ranging from royalists to Stalinist Communists. Committed from an early age to the ideal of world communism as interpreted by Stalin, Tito moved from an effective underground Communist organiser to the wartime Partisan leader who, against all odds, defeated not only the invading German armies but also rival Cetnik guerrillas and regional forces to become the undisputed post-war head of a federal Yugoslavia. He survived the trauma of ideological rejection and possible invasion by Stalin in 1948, to create, at both the political and economic levels, a uniquely pragmatic Titoist state.
Publication Year: 1996
Publication Date: 1996-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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