47. Looking at Yugoslavia (1)

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DOCUMENTS

Soviet Union condemns the

Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia

 

1948 | 1948_The Soviet-Yugoslav Dispute_Published Correspondence

London: Royal Institute of International Affairs

1949 | Communist Party of Yugoslavia In The Power of Assassins and Spies. Resolution of the Information Bureau of Communist Parties in Hungary in the latter half of November 1949.  1949_Meeting_Information Bureau_Communist Parties_November

1950 | Medvedev, Tito clique in service of the instigator of a new war . Bombay: People’s Publishing House Text of Medvedev

1953| May 1953 Zimianin reports to Molotov on the internal and foreign policy of Yugoslavia after breaking with the USSR.    Zimianin report

Milovan Djilas, Conversations with Stalin. First published by Harcourt Brace 1962. London: Penguin [2014]

Author of The New Class [1957], Djilas was once an orthodox communist and former partisan general, expelled from the Party in 1954, his disillusion is record in this account of meeting Stalin as a representative of the Yugoslav government on three occasions.

 

Restoration of Capitalism in Yugoslavia

1949 Restoration of Capitalism in Yugoslavia Articles from For a Lasting Peace, for a People’s Democracy!

1951 |James Klugmann, From Trotsky To Tito London: Lawrence and Wishart

Click to access from-trotsky-to-tito.pdf

 Exchange of Letters marking improvements in relations between the two countries and the two parties.

1954 | June 22, 1954 Letter from Khrushchev to Josip Broz Tito and the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. Letter from Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev to Yugoslav leader Josep B. Tito suggesting that the time is ripe for a rapprochement between the two states and parties. Blaming former NKVD chief Lavrenty Beria and former Yugoslav leadership member Milovan Djilas for doing the work of the imperialists by attempting to drive a wedge between the Soviet and Yugoslav people and parties, Khrushchev suggests that the ousting of both will increase rapprochement between the two countries and be the catalyst for a a summit between the two leaders.

Exchange of Letters  

06 | Reply of August 11th to Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Yugoslav response to Soviet approaches about normalizing relations between the two countries and the two parties. While encouraged by the Soviet gestures, the Yugoslav leadership remains cautious and suggests that the rapprochement take a slow and steady course, taking into account the differences as well as the similarities between the two countries.

07 | Letter dated September 23rd   from Khrushchev to Tito and the Central Committee of the League of Communists Of Yugoslavia

Nikita Khrushchev’s letter to Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito concerning the possibility of improving relations between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. The Soviet leader suggests that rapprochement between the USSR and Yugoslavia can only be accomplished if both parties continue the exchange of views regarding mutual non-interference in the internal affairs of the other country, peaceful coexistence, equality among parties, and world peace. Khrushchev goes on to suggest that a summit between party representatives should meet in order to further rapprochement.

1956 | Khrushchev reports on his conversations with the Yugoslav leaders during his visit to Yugoslavia

Document 08

                                                                Yugoslavia’s Socialism

1950 | Workers Manage Factories in Yugoslavia. Speech by Josip Broz Tito

Tito’s Speech

1958 | Extract from Programme of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia

a) THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIALISM UNDER NEW CONDITIONS    LCY Text

b) INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL RELATIONS AND THE FOREIGN POLICY OF SOCIALIST    YUGOSLAVIA   LCY Text 2

China’s changing attitude towards      Yugoslavia

1955 | June 30 1955 Conversation of Mao Zedong and the Yugoslav Ambassador [V.] Popovic

Conversation Text

1958 | Yugoslav MINUTES of MAO_S CONVERSATION

 

1958 |  InRefutationOfModernRevisionism

Editorials and articles on modern revisionism that appeared in the Chinese press in May and June, 1958 and the Resolution on the Moscow Meetings of Representatives of Communist and Workers’ Parties adopted by the Second Session of the Eighth National Congress.

1963 | Is Yugoslavia a socialist country

Comment on the Open letter of the Central Committee of the CPSU (III) by the Editorial Departments of Renmin Ribao (People’s Daily) and Hongqi (Red Flag) September 26, 1963

https://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/sino-soviet-split/cpc/yugoslavia.htm

Enver Hoxha on his neighbours

Enver Hoxha and the Great Ideological Battle of the Albanian Communists Against Revisionism

https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/italy/hoxha-battle.pdf

1964 |The Belgrade Revisionist Clique – renegades from Marxism-Leninism and Agents of Imperialism

Tirana: The <<Naim Frasheri>> State Publishing Enterprise [1964]

http://michaelharrison.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/The-Belgrade-Revisionist-Clique-Renegades-from-Marxism-Leninism-and-Agents-of-Imperialism.pdf

1978 | Enver Hoxha, Yugoslav “Self-Administration” – Capitalist Theory and Practice

(Against the anti-socialist views of E. Kardelj in the book “Directions of the Development of the Political System of Socialist Self-Administration”)

Tirana: Institute of Marxist-Leninist studies of the Central Committee of the Party of Labour of Albania [1978]

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hoxha/works/1978/yugoslavia/index.htm

1982 | Enver Hoxha, THE TITOITES Historical Notes

Tirana: The <<Naim Frasheri>> Publishing House [1982]

http://www.bannedthought.net/Albania/Hoxha/TheTitoites-EnverHoxha-1982.pdf

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