Tito and His Comrades

384 The Presidential Years left.^659 The emphasis was on the right, since some of those Croats who had migrated were increasingl ...

The Presidential Years 385 USA—would try to exploit the Croat opposition to strengthen their influence in the country. In Belgra ...

386 The Presidential Years wanted a Stalinist party. They criticized “democratic centralism” and proclaimed that “somebody” want ...

The Presidential Years 387 party members a circular letter in order to point out the main problems of the moment and invite them ...

388 The Presidential Years Certainly, Tito was not a good orator. According to the Serb writer Ivan Ivanji, who assisted him whe ...

The Presidential Years 389 economic, and cultural life were hounded from their posts and replaced by mediocre and practically un ...

390 The Presidential Years the system of self-management and to prevent civil war and avoid Soviet mili- tary intervention. Actu ...

The Presidential Years 391 and a prerequisite for all those who aimed to achieve a position in the party or state administration ...

392 5 The Later Years Yugoslavia in Economic and Political Crisis 1973–1980 After the suicide of his only son, Borut, on New Yea ...

The Later Years 393 had a religious connotation—a Marxist religion—whose principal origin was not Lenin and the October Revoluti ...

394 The Later Years Union—although hostile to self-management and non-alignment—would tol- erate the Yugoslav path to socialism ...

The Later Years 395 hindered in their work because Tito suspected all of them, seeing in everybody a possible rival. I was under ...

396 The Later Years according to their interests. The policy should not meddle in self-management but should only plan the socio ...

The Later Years 397 which was his ideal, eight parties were created. Instead of a strong state, the 1974 constitution created a ...

398 The Later Years system. In reality, it guaranteed the survival of the only structures that, after the general fragmentation, ...

The Later Years 399 Organizacija Udruženog Rada), inaugurating an enormous bureaucratic body that reached macroscopic dimensions ...

400 The Later Years one. He was not coherent as to why, and was not able to clearly explain the rela- tionship between democracy ...

The Later Years 401 south and promised to increase this sum in the period to follow, the gap be- tween the two geographic areas ...

402 The Later Years Did he include his protégé among the “small Titos,” fifty-two-year-old Stane Dolanc, the operative of the LC ...

The Later Years 403 he was an architect of that recognition and of the alliance of the smaller Yugo- slav nations against Belgra ...