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'''Tito''' (born Josip Broz, 1892–1980) was a Croat and the leader of [[Yugoslavia]], which existed from 1943 until 1991. Tito spent much time in the [[Soviet Union]] and became a member of the [[Comintern]], returned to Yugoslavia during [[World War II]] and led the [[Yugoslav Partisans]]. After World War II he defied [[Stalin]] and founded the Non-Aligned Movement. He held Yugoslavia together; after his death it disintegrates into chaos and civil war.
'''Tito''' (born Josip Broz, 1892–1980) was a Croat and the leader of [[Yugoslavia]], which existed from 1943 until 1991. Tito spent much time in the [[Soviet Union]] and became a member of the [[Comintern]], returned to Yugoslavia during [[World War II]] and led the [[Yugoslav Partisans]]. After World War II he defied [[Stalin]] and founded the Non-Aligned Movement. He held Yugoslavia together; after his death it disintegrates into chaos and civil war.
==Cold War==
==Cold War==
[[Image:Josip Broz Tito.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Marshall Tito in 1971 during a visit to the Nixon White House.]]
[[Image:Josip Broz Tito.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Marshall Tito in 1971 during a visit to the Nixon White House.]]
"Titoism" meant a form of Communism trying to be independent from the Soviet Union. Tito accepted fellow Yugoslav Communist Milovan Djilas's proposal of self-management of factories to show that Yugoslavia was more communist than the Soviet Union yet more democratic than the West. The new constitutional law of 1953 contained the concept of socialist direct democracy as the expression of the working people through self-management. With the death of Stalin, Tito was reconciled with the Soviet leaders, and Djilas's attempt to apply criticism of Soviet Communism to Yugoslavia led to his trials and incarceration. Liberalization of Communism ended in Yugoslavia and Tito turned his ambitions as a leader outside the two blocs, to the countries of the Third World. Tito then followed an independent course in foreign affairs--maintaining good relations with the East European Communist satellite states, while establishing ties with the Western powers and nonaligned nations. He built a multiethnic Communist state notable for its policies of economic decentralization and increased worker participation in government. Made marshal of Yugoslavia and elected president in 1953, Tito became president for life in 1974
==Further reading==
==Further reading==
* Barnett, Neil. ''Tito'' (2006) [http://www.amazon.com/Tito-Life-Times-Neil-Barnett/dp/1904950310/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243458862&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Barnett, Neil. ''Tito'' (2006) [http://www.amazon.com/Tito-Life-Times-Neil-Barnett/dp/1904950310/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243458862&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
* Beloff, Nora. ''Tito's Flawed Legacy: Yugoslavia and the West since 1939.'' (1986). 287 pp.
* Beloff, Nora. ''Tito's Flawed Legacy: Yugoslavia and the West since 1939.'' (1986). 287 pp.
* Dedijer, Vladimir. ''Tito'' (1972)
* Djilas, Milovan. ''Tito: The Story from Inside'' (1980) highly revealing memoir by top aide.
* Djilas, Milovan. ''Tito: The Story from Inside'' (1980) highly revealing memoir by top aide.
* Pavlowitch, Stevan K. ''Tito, Yugoslavia's Great Dictator'' (1992).
* Vucinich, Wayne S., ed. ''At the Brink of War and Peace: The Tito-Stalin Split in a Historic Perspective.'' (1982). 341 pp.
* Vucinich, Wayne S., ed. ''At the Brink of War and Peace: The Tito-Stalin Split in a Historic Perspective.'' (1982). 341 pp.
* West, Richard. ''Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia.'' (1995). 448 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Tito-Rise-Fall-Yugoslavia-Richard/dp/0786703326/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243458862&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]
* West, Richard. ''Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia.'' (1995). 448 pp. [http://www.amazon.com/Tito-Rise-Fall-Yugoslavia-Richard/dp/0786703326/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243458862&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search]