Thursday, April 29, 2010

yugoslavia and soviet union split











How did Tito, the leader of Yugoslavia, keep the split somewhat separate from the Soviet Union and Stalin? What made the separation such a success? If he had done something different would the split not have come out to the same result? Did Tito succeed in what he wanted to accomplish? Tito was formally an ally to Stalin, so Stalin set up a spy in Yugoslavia party as soon as Tito’s leading role in Yugoslavia strengthened his position and gave him the opportunity to give Yugoslavia more room to have its own interests than other leaders and their countries. A couple years before World War II Tito had survived Stalin’s purge of Yugoslav communists in the Soviet Union. In 1946 Tito made his own constitution that resembled the soviet constitution. Tito also refused to make his country like the Soviet bloc; however, Stalin ejected Yugoslavia from the Communist Information Bureau. For the time being, it gave Tito political leadership that soon moved away of the state domination of Stalinism. The conflict between the two leaders Stalin and Josip Brav Tito resulted in the Yugoslavia expulsion from the communist information in 1948. It was also known as the first to break from Stalin’s communist bloc in 1948. Some evidence states that the conflict was because of Josip Brav Tito’s national pride and because he wouldn’t commit Stalin. This had already made some friction between the two countries before World War II. The friction led to a split, eventually leading to Tito’s refusal to Moscow as the supreme communist authority. Stalin was also angry that Tiot wanted to merge Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, an idea that he accepted in theory but then took place without prior Soviet discussion. During 1952 The Sixth Communist Party Congress held a meeting that needed to prove that Yugoslavia could create a form of socialism superior to the Stalinists version which recently split. In the meeting, liberal forces created a constitution the separated party and political functions. They restored political rights to republics and civil rights to individuals. In my opinion the split wasn’t very subtle. The separation was a success because it gave Yugoslavia an opportunity to establish their own party. It gave them the ability to not fallow in the eyes of Stalin and to have their own rights. They are able to experience being their own country. Other than that, what’s the whole point of separating? In my opinion he could have made it more subtle and not get so many people involved, but if he didn’t get people involved would he be as successful? I don’t think so. I think he needed other people to do what he wanted to do. The expulsion eventually banished Yugoslavia from the international of association of socialist states. Between 1948 and 1952, the Soviet Union encouraged its allies to rebuild their military forces especially Hungry which was to be the leading forces in an eventual war against Yugoslavia. Tito got Yugoslavia involved in the Non- Aligned Movement, in which Yugoslavia was the leading force. The event was significant to Yugoslavia and Tito, but also for the global development of socialism, since it was the first major split between communist states.

5 comments:

  1. It is very interesting that Yugoslavia was "expelled" from the Soviet bloc. It doesn't make sense that the Soviets would expell one of their countries. It would weaken them.

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  3. Tito sounds like a tough guy that stood up for what he thought was right. I find it interesting that Yugoslavia played a major role in the development of socialism.

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  4. I think its amazing how Yugoslavia could just be banished from the socialists states. It seems like all of this started because two guys really disliked eachother, is this true?

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  5. I agree with Alex. Tito was ambitious. I never would of thought Yugoslavia was a key role in the development in Socialism. I thought it was mostly Germany and Russia.

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