Titoism

TITOISM WAS A NATIONALISTIC ideology and practice of communism in Yugoslavia during the regime of Josip Broz Tito, officially knows as Marshal Tito, the president of Yugoslavia from the end of World War II until his death in 1980. This ideology took shape after Tito's quarrel with the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia's subsequent expulsion from the Cominform, the Communist Information Bureau, an information agency organized in 1947 and dissolved in 1956, consisting of the communist parties of Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia. Titoism was developed during the period of “Splendid Isolation” that lasted from the break with the Soviet Union until Nikita Khrushchev's reparatory visit to Belgrade, the Yugoslavian capital, in 1955. The Titoist paradigm was called “social ...