Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia
- Authors
- West, Richard
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber Ltd
- Tags
- history , biography , politics
- ISBN
- 9780571281107
- Date
- 1994-06-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 2.33 MB
- Lang
- en
For nearly 40 years, up until his death in 1980, Tito, the Yugoslav leader, was world-famous--1st as a Partisan against the Germans, then as the 1st Communist head to break with the USSR, then as a pioneer of the non-aligned world between East West. Yet, 12 years after Tito's death, Yugoslavia ceased to exist its people were caught up in a violent civil war. Was Tito to blame? West's revealing biography answers this other questions.
The history of the South Slavs
Youth
The making of a communist
Wartime
The Ustasha terror
First clashes with the Chetniks
The long march
The fourth and fifth offensives
The triumph of the partisans
Power
Settling scores
The quarrel with Stalin
Titoism
Yugoslavia's place in the world
The return of the nationalities problem
The final years
Reassessment of Tito
Towards disaster in Serbia
Towards disaster in Croatia
Towards disaster in Bosnia-Hecegovina