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TITO Geoffrey Swain holds the Alec Nove Chair in Russian and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow. He has written extensively on the history of Russia and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century. His most recent publications include: Between Stalin and Hitler: Class War and Race War on the Dvina (Routledge, 2004); Trotsky (Pearson-Longman, 2006); and, with Nigel Swain, Eastern Europe since 1945 (Palgrave Macmillan, Fourth Edition, 2009). Other titles in the Communist Lives series: Palmiro Togliatti Aldo Agosti Maurice Thorez John Bulaitis Ernst Thälmann Norman LaPorte Antonio Gramsci Claudio Natoli Wladyslaw Gomulka Anita Prażmowska Imre Nagy János Rainer Georgi Dimitrov Marietta Stankova TITO A Biography Geoffrey Swain Published in 2011 by I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd 6 Salem Road, London W2 4BU 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 www.ibtauris.com Distributed in the United States and Canada Exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 Copyright © 2011 Geoffrey Swain The right of Geoffrey Swain to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book or any part thereof, may not be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher Communist Lives: Volume 5 ISBN: 978 1 84511 727 6 A full CIP record for this book is available from the British Library A full CIP record for this book is available from the Library of Congress Library of Congress catalog card: available Printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham from camera-ready copy edited and supplied by the author CONTENTS List of Abbreviations vii Acknowledgements ix Series Foreword by Matthew Worley xi Introduction 001 1. The Making of a Yugoslav Revolutionary 5 2. Learning to Implement the People’s Liberation Struggle 33 3. Revolution Through War 57 4. Revising Marxism–Leninism 83 5. The Khrushchev Decade 109 6. Reforming Communism 139 7. Actually Existing Self-Management 165 Conclusion 185 Endnotes 193 Index 209 ABBREVIATIONS AVNOJ: the Anti-Fascist Council for the People’s Liberation of Yugoslavia, the founding body of the post-war Yugoslav state which met twice in November 1942 and November 1943. EAM: the Greek Resistance Movement, established by the Greek Communist Party during the Second World War and while ostensibly open to other parties, always dominated by the Communist Party. SRZ: Peasant Work Co-operative, the equivalent of the Soviet ‘collective farm’ during Yugoslavia’s short experiment with collective agriculture. ZAVNOH: the State Anti-Fascist Council for the People’s Liberation of Croatia, responsible for organising the liberation struggle in Croatia, but subject to the decisions of AVNOJ. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Part of Chapter One is based on an article ‘Tito: the Formation of a Disloyal Bolshevik’ published in International Review of Social History, volume 24, no. 2, 1989, and reproduced here with the kind permission of the editor of that journal. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the staff of two libraries, the University of Glasgow Library and the National Library of Scotland; Tania Konn-Roberts of the Slavonic Collection at the University of Glasgow Library deserves special mention for her help while I was working on this project.

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