In 1948 in a series of moves that culminated in the famous
Cominform Resolution, Stalin struck at the Communist Party in
Yugoslavia, provoking the first split in the Communist state
system. With this long-awaited book, Ivo Banac becomes the first
scholar to assess the domestic consequences of Yugoslavia's
expulsion from the Cominform, and his findings will radically
revise some of our most basic assumptions about Tito's revolution.
Banac's subject is the nature and fate of those elements in the
Yugoslav Communist party who were said to have sided with Moscow
against their own country's leadership. He demonstrates that the
so-called Cominformists represented as much as twenty-percent of
the party membership and had widely divergent aims. He then
reconstructs the history of the labrynthine factional struggles
that preceded and accompanied the 1948 split and shows that, as
always, the national question played the dominant role in Yugoslav
politics. After identifying the members of the opposition and
mapping its course, Banac recounts the harsh repression of the
movement. He provides massive documentation of startling irony: the
conflict with Stalin played the same part in the shaping of
Yugoslavia's political system as the collectivization and purges of
the 1930's did in the history of Soviet communism.
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