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It is perhaps fitting that as Pirjevec’s study hits the stands in the United
States, the city of Rijeka is transforming Tito’s timeworn yacht into a museum,
a repository of history and memory. We can hope that it will be a place for
locals and tourists alike to reflect upon Tito’s legacy, to celebrate his diplomatic
and domestic successes, and to critique the ideology and failures of a deceased
state. Pirjevec provides us with the scholarly framework to do such memory
work. Indeed, Tito and His Comrades goes beyond simple biography to serve
also as a reevaluation of the history of socialist Yugoslavia.