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Josip Broz Tito
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Yugoslavia. He was originally Josip Broz. Rise to Power The son...in a Croatian village, Tito fought in Russia with...Several years later Broz returned to Croatia and...that he adopted the name Tito. Although the core of...partisan army was Communist, Tito's rapidly growing ...
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Tito and the Partisans
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
Tito and the Partisans. Josip Broz (1892–1980) was born...pseudonyms, one of which, Tito, he eventually adopted permanently...attacked in April 1941, Tito had successfully carried...1941 (see BARBAROSSA ), and Tito issued his call to arms...
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Tito
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Tito (1892–1980) Yugoslav statesman, b. Croatia as Josip Broz. As a soldier in the Austro-Hungari...Party, and adopted the name Tito in 1934. He led the Partisans...during World War 2. In 1945, Tito established a communist...countries in 1948. At home, Tito sought to balance the ...
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Tito, Marshal
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Yugoslav statesman Marshal Tito became president of...revolutionary change was Josip Broz, who is commonly known as Marshal Tito. Tito's early years Tito was born Josip Broz on May 25, 1892, the...near Zagreb, Croatia. Tito began working on his...
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Marshal Tito
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Marshal Tito The Yugoslav statesman Marshal Tito (born 1892) became president...revolutionary change was Josip Broz, who is commonly known as Marshal Tito. Tito was born on May 25, 1892...Russian civil war. In 1920 Tito returned to Croatia and...
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Milovan Djilas
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...party member from 1932, he helped Josip Broz Tito organize volunteers to fight in the...government. As a top political adviser to Tito and an outspoken critic of Russian...regarded as a possible successor to Tito. He was about to assume the presidency...
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Mitja Ribičič
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...in the revolutionary student movement and joined the Communist party in 1941. He was a member of the partisans of Josip Broz Tito in World War II. After the war he served as a member of the executive council of Slovenia, as a deputy of the Slovenian...
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Milentije Popović
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Communist student movement, he became a member of the Yugoslav Communist party in 1939. He joined the partisans of Josip Broz Tito in Oct., 1941. After Yugoslavia's liberation, Popović held various ministerial positions. In 1953 he became a member...
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Edvard Kardelj
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...In 1940 he became a politburo member. He was important in the underground in World War II and was vice premier of Josip Broz Tito's provisional government, a position that he continued to hold after the formal establishment of the Yugoslav Communist...
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Władysław Gomułka
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...premier of Poland. A Polish nationalist, he was purged in 1949 for alleged sympathy with the Yugoslav Communist leader, Josip Broz Tito , and was arrested in 1951. Freed in 1954, he was readmitted (1956) to the United Workers' (Communist) party. In Oct...
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