Marshal Tito Josip Broz Tito Term Paper

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First of all Titoism "included the eventual abandonment of agricultural collectivization, workers councils, and the centralization of economic and administrative controls. Generally Yugoslavs under Tito's rule possessed more freedoms and liberties than most others living in communist regimes" (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/yugo-hist2.htm).Another idea of Titoism was national particularity of Communism which meant that Communism in different states had different features which should be taken into consideration by the government. The main point if this statement was multinational structure of Yugoslav society which could not accept Soviet kind of Communism so the main problem of Tito's domestic policy was national issue. It is known that Kosovo and Croatia were the centers of nationalistic separatism in Yugoslavia so communism and federation were not popular among their population. Tito failed establishing ethnic peace and cooperation in these regions because both Albanians and Croats resisted his plans of strengthening the federation. As the matter of fact by the end of his rule Tito's policy was directed on centralizing federation's power, harassing dissenters, suppressing nationalists, and censoring mass media.
But unfortunately Tito failed creating stable socialist federation and the main reason of his failure was ethnic and religious factor: ethnic divisions and unsolved problem of existing nationalism caused several wars after his death and ultimately Yugoslav federation disintegrated. Sure, there were also serious economical problems but ethnic issue was too strong to preserve the unified state since 3 absolutely different cultures turned out to be unable to live in peace together. Yugoslavia was unified during Tito's rule only by the power of weapon:Communist ideology could not unite Orthodox Christians, Catholics and Muslims who hated each other for centuries of bloody Balkan history. The majority of historians, scientists and politicians admit the fact that Yugoslavia could not be held together after Tito's death but it was not his guilt. Nevertheless, Josip Tito is respected in modern Serbia and Montenegro and treated as a national hero who liberated Yugoslavia from Nazi occupation and who ruled tthe country for 30 years......

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