1. Titoism and the evolution of socialist Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia: History & Disintegration
Dr Dejan Djokić

3. Tito-Stalin split Conflict essentially political, not ideological
Tensions over economic policies
Tensions over Yugoslavia’s foreign policy (Greek civil war, ‘Balkan federation’, the Trieste crisis)
27 March 1948: Stalin warns Tito
28 June 1948: Yugoslavia expelled from the Cominform
Tito survives. The KPJ membership nearly doubles in 1948 (from 285,000 to 483,000)
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4. Titoism ‘Brotherhood and unity’ Socialist federation Self-management
Non-alignment
Western political and economic support (US alone provided $2,5bn in aid )
Yugoslavia’s trade increasingly with western countries
‘Ordinary’ Yugoslavs: relatively high standard of living & ability to travel without visas

5. Non-aligned movement Founders: President Tito of Yugoslavia
Prime Minister Nehru of India
President Nasser of Egypt
President Sukarno of Indonesia
President Nkrumah of Ghana
First summit of the NAM, Belgrade, Sept 1961
Alternative to and independence from the Western and Eastern blocs

6. l-r: Nehru, Nkrumah, Nasser, Sukarno, Tito

7. Challenges to Titoism Internal: Dissent - the Djilas affair
Nationalism (e.g. Croatian Spring)
Power struggle within the party (removal of Rankovic in 1966)
Economic reforms
External:
Events in Hungary (1956), Czechoslovakia (1968), Poland (1980s)
Pressure to re-join the Soviet bloc

8. Tito’s closest allies (l-r): Milovan Djilas, Edvard Kardelj, Aleksandar Ranković

9. Marshal Tito and Djilas, after the war. Tito purged Djilas in 1954

10. Djilas as dissident

11. Ranković, interior minister and chief of the secret police, purged by Tito in 1966

12. ‘Croatian Spring’, Tito with the Croat Party leaders Savka Dabčević-Kučar and Miko Tripalo, 1968

13. ‘Croatian Spring’, student demonstrations, Zagreb, June 1968

14. Nikita Khruschev and Tito, Yugoslavia 1955

15. Tito (left) and Leonid Brezhnev, hunting

16. Tito and John F. Kennedy, Washington, DC, Oct 1963

17. After Tito…?
Could Yugoslavia have survived the death of Tito?