Tito and His Comrades

144 World War Two and the Partisan Struggle to Eden on 11 March 1945, he wrote that from then on he would leave Tito to stew in ...

World War Two and the Partisan Struggle 145 built by Prince Paul in a neoclassical style, but also kept the Old Palace, where Ki ...

146 World War Two and the Partisan Struggle rigid rules: each member of the nomenklatura knew exactly when and what he or she co ...

World War Two and the Partisan Struggle 147 At first, Tito’s salary was modest—mostly symbolic—in part because no one controlled ...

148 World War Two and the Partisan Struggle unluckily enough, they are mostly peasants, and you know how the cult of the uniform ...

World War Two and the Partisan Struggle 149 early seventies—“from a modest property to their present form, bringing to mind the ...

150 3 The Postwar Period Consolidation of Power and Confrontation with Stalin 1945–1953 During the final military operations of ...

The Postwar Period 151 of threat felt by Yugoslav leaders because of this sudden quarrel only confirmed their conviction that ca ...

152 The Postwar Period out any provocations.”^9 And during a speech in Pula in 1956, he confessed: “We have won the revolution w ...

The Postwar Period 153 members were from the military) had at its disposal a network of commit- tees that kept the masses under ...

154 The Postwar Period Yugoslavia’s international standing. The peace conference where important decisions would be made about t ...

The Postwar Period 155 Ljubljana with his forces, so that even now they’d still be in charge. It wouldn’t be us in power, but th ...

156 The Postwar Period officers who had participated in military and counterespionage courses in Mos- cow, he boldly described h ...

The Postwar Period 157 against Alexander’s reference to “territorial aggression.”^37 To Tito, however, Stalin was equally frank: ...

158 The Postwar Period them a better life.^43 As reflected in Tito’s own words at the First Congress of the Communist Party of S ...

The Postwar Period 159 which incorporated the various middle-class parties while also depriving them of their autonomy. The pres ...

160 The Postwar Period Serbia, and Macedonia. “But that was impossible,” Tito continued. “The Serbs just wouldn’t tolerate it.”^ ...

The Postwar Period 161 Against such a background, attacks against religion, especially the Catholic Church, were inevitable. The ...

162 The Postwar Period would not engage in discussion, but had to be obeyed. “In a strange way, merely by changing the tone of h ...

The Postwar Period 163 The West’s hostility toward Tito was articulated most powerfully by Churchill who, having been defeated b ...