Политология : WHAT WAS TITO'S SEPARATE WAY?

WHAT WAS TITO'S SEPARATE WAY?

THE UNIVERSITY OF HULL

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS

The Politics of Eastern Europe

WHAT WAS TITO’S SEPARATE WAY?

By:

Jonas Daniliauskas

Tutor:

Terence P McNeill

16 May 1995

Introduction

The aim of this essay is to show how Josip Broz Tito created and

maintained the socialist system in Yugoslavia, which was some kind of way

between the Soviet socialism and Western capitalism. The main attention

will be focused on the reasons of the Tito’s break with Stalin, on the

origins of the separate way, and the developments of this way.

The Situation in 1945-1948

Early in November 1944, Tito, who was supreme commander of the

National Liberation Army and Secretary-General of the Communist Party of

Yugoslavia (CPY) and Subasic, who was a representative of the Royal

Yugoslav Government concluded a draft political agreement that elections

should be held to a Constituent Assembly which would decide on the future

form of the government in Yugoslavia.[1]A new Yugoslav Provisional

Government was created on 7 March 1945. Tito became the last Royal Yugoslav

Prime Minister and Minister of Defense.[2] The new government was

immediately recognised by the British, American and Soviet governments.

In August 1945 the People’s Front was formed. It was an ‘umbrella

organisation’ in which those non-communist parties that still existed would

collaborate with the CPY.[3