Tito and His Comrades

4 Introduction very beginning, I had the impression that he had not changed at all, but at the same time, that he had changed a ...

Introduction 5 ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, during his first meeting with Tito on the shores of Slovenia’s Lak ...

6 1 The Young Broz World War One, Imprisonment, and His Rise in the Yugoslav Communist Party 1892–1939 Learning and Wandering Jo ...

The Young Broz 7 Slovenian counterpart, no one took particular note of his cleverness, and so his education was not provided for ...

8 The Young Broz Young Josip’s initial plan was to become a tailor, as he liked elegant clothes. But the village schoolmaster, a ...

The Young Broz 9 nationalists, Tito said to Savka Dabčević-Kučar, the president of the League of the Communists of Croatia: “You ...

10 The Young Broz this second Circassian, with his enormous eyes and heavy brows.”^18 He fell to the ground. The last thing he n ...

The Young Broz 11 near Oulu and sent back to Petrograd, where he languished for three weeks in the dank cells of the Petropavlov ...

12 The Young Broz When the Red Army drove Kolchak’s bands from Omsk in 1919, reestablish- ing rail communications with Petrograd ...

The Young Broz 13 with these three major ethnic groups, at least seventeen lesser minorities (Alba- nians, Hungarians, Germans, ...

14 The Young Broz were tainted by a hostile antagonism between Serbs and Croats. As Miroslav Krleža wrote later, the discussion ...

The Young Broz 15 a young Croat Jew employed in a bank, but he stepped down in favor of Broz, claiming that the secretary should ...

16 The Young Broz from the jail, in which he exaggerated the “tortures” to which he was subjected, was published on 24 August 19 ...

The Young Broz 17 revolution.^54 During the years spent in jail, which he remembered with amused levity, Broz became a professio ...

18 The Young Broz and mutual hostility. He told them without mincing words that no real com- munist, of those he had met in or o ...

The Young Broz 19 National Conference. The first conference took place in September, at the summer residence of the bishop of Lj ...

20 The Young Broz This was the only way in which the monarchy could be overthrown.^67 How- ever, these proposals bore no fruit, ...

The Young Broz 21 him like a “gossipy old woman”).^74 The latter rewarded him by proposing to send him for a short time to a “sa ...

22 The Young Broz memoirs of Ruth von Mayenburg, the wife of the Austrian communist, Ernst Fischer, about her stay at the Hotel ...

The Young Broz 23 Kardelj, during the Great Terror Broz did everything in his power to save as many Yugoslav émigrés as possible ...