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Josip Broz Tito
Josip Broz Tito , 1892-1980, Yugoslav Communist leader, marshal of Yugoslavia. He was originally Josip Broz. Rise to Power The son of a blacksmith in a Croatian village, Tito fought in Russia with the Austro-Hungarian army in World War I and was captured by the Russians. He served with dis... Read more
Milovan Djilas
Milovan Djilas , 1911-95, Yugoslav political leader and writer, b. Montenegro. A Communist party member from 1932, he helped Josip Broz Tito organize volunteers to fight in the Spanish civil war . He was active in the Yugoslav resistance in World War II and after the war rose to high posts in par... Read more
Władysław Gomułka
Władysław Gomułka , 1905-82, Polish Communist leader. Long a Communist, he helped establish the Polish Workers' party and was (1943-49) secretary of its central committee. After World War II, he served (1945-49) as deputy premier of Poland. A Polish nationalist, he was purged in 1949 ... Read more
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin , 1879-1953, Soviet Communist leader and head of the USSR from the death of V. I. Lenin (1924) until his own death, b. Gori, Georgia. His real name was Dzhugashvili (also spelled Dzugashvili or Djugashvili); he adopted the name Stalin ( "man of steel" ) about 1913. ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to " Josip Broz Tito"

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 ... Read more
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... Read more
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 ... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more

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Broz, Josip
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Broz, Josip see Tito . Read more
Tito, Josip
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Tito, Josip (b. 25 May 1892, d. 4 May 1980...President 1953–80 Born Josip Broz in the Croatian town of Kumrovec...changed his name to ‘ Tito’ when the Communist...the German invasion in 1941, Tito formed the Partisan Army of... Read more
Tito
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Tito (born Josip Broz ) (1892–1980) Yugoslav Marshal and...organizer on returning to his country in 1920. Tito responded to the German invasion of Yugoslavia...the new government at the end of the war. Tito defied Stalin over policy in the Balkans... Read more
Tito, Marshall
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Tito, Marshall (1892–1980) born Josip Broz near Zagreb, Croatia, and a locksmith by trade, Tito was a Yugoslav revolutionary and eventually occupied high-level political positions as a Communist, serving as the secretary-general... Read more
Kosovska Mitrovica
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names ...church of the warrior saint St Demetrius after whom the town is named. In 1948 Titova ‘Tito's’ was added to the name in honour of Josip Broz Tito † . It was dropped in 1992 and replaced by Kosovska to denote its location in Kosovo... Read more
Drvar
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names ...each of the Yugoslav republics named a town in honour of Josip Broz Tito † . Thus Drvar gained the additional Titov ‘Tito's’. It was dropped after Bosnia and Herzegovina... Read more
Podgorica
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names ...was held by the Ottoman Turks. In 1946 it became the Montenegrin capital and was renamed ‘Tito's Town’ after Marshal Josip Broz Tito † . Podgorica was readopted in 1992. Read more
Yugoslavia, Relations with
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...government, and then shifted its aid to Josip Broz Tito's partisans toward the end of the...Cold War. From 1945 to 1948, while Tito (who prevailed in the internal power...attempts to dominate Yugoslavia led Tito to split with Stalin in June 1948... Read more
Burton, Richard
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...English-language version of Un Mur à J é rusalem ) (as narrator); Sutjeska ( The Fifth Offensive ) (Delic) (as Josip Broz Tito) 1973 Il viaggio ( The Voyage ; The Journey ) (de Sica) (as Cesar Braggi); Under Milk Wood (Sinclair) (as narrator... Read more

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SERBIA: ANNIVERSARY OF TITO'S DEATH MARKED IN BELGRADE...(Josip Broz Tito)(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 5/8/2000; 165 words ; Jovanka Broz, who is the widow of Josip Broz Tito, laid a wreath at the Belgrade...also paid their respects. Josip Broz, who is a grandson of the...made in recent years that Tito was a dictator, Vesti reported. Broz argued that his grandfather... Read more
SERBIA: ANNIVERSARY OF TITO'S DEATH MARKED IN BELGRADE AND ELSEWHERE IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA.(Josip Broz Tito)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 5/8/2000; 127 words ; The Belgrade commemoration of Tito's death anniversary on 4 May included delegations...and towns in Bosnia. In Tuzla, a bust of Tito was unveiled in the city center, RFE/RL...5,000 mostly elderly people arrived in Tito's home town of Kumrovec in Croatia to pay... Read more
YUGOSLAVIA: FORMER TITO-ERA LEADER DIES.(Lazar Kolisevski)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 7/11/2000; 66 words ; ...of 88. He was a prominent functionary in the regime of Josip Broz Tito and briefly held the rotating chair of the state presidency following Tito's death in 1980. Kolisevski retired from public life... Read more
The broom of Titoism: how developing nations are compensating for weak labor markets.
Magazine article from: The International Economy; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; Yugoslav strongman Josip Broz Tim died on May 4, 1980...history. Even though Marshall Tito might be dead, his ideas are alive and well. In 1948, Tito made his mark by breaking...Moscow was quick to label Tito's form of communism revisionism... Read more
SERBIA: JOVANKA OFF THE HOOK.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 3/13/2001; 141 words ; Jovanka Broz, who is the widow of the late Josip Broz Tito, feels the effects of advanced...share the political limelight with Tito's widow or any other woman. Mira...comrade] number one -- made sure that Tito's leading drugarica stayed out... Read more
CROATIA: MESIC LEADS CROATIA'S ANTI-FASCIST CELEBRATIONS.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 5/11/2000; 147 words ; ...over the annual ceremony to honor the victory of Josip Broz Tito's Partisans in World War II. He addressed his...who fought in the Partisans and later became Tito's youngest general, kept the Tito-era holiday to mark the end of World War II but... Read more
YUGOSLAVIA: FIRST AS TRAGEDY, THEN AS FARCE.
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 1/14/2001; 172 words ; ...great efforts to erase the memory of Josip Broz Tito. In Serbia, Milosevic's wife ultimately...had precious little in common with Tito's doctrines. In Croatia, the late President Franjo Tudjman aped Tito's political style but subscribed... Read more
SLOVENIA: VETERAN SLOVENIAN POLITICIAN DIES.(Sergei Kraigher)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 1/18/2001; 45 words ; Sergej Kraigher, who was one of Slovenia's top politicians during the last years of the rule of Josip Broz Tito, died in Ljubljana on 16 January, RFE/RL's South Slavic Service reported. PM Copyright (c) 1999. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Read more
Ese fascismo que viene.(TT: Fascism is coming.)
Magazine article from: Proceso; 8/20/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...sucedido en los países que otrora estuvieron juntos bajo el nombre de Yugoslavia y la férula de Josip Broz, mejor conocido como el mariscal Tito. La obra comienza con una declaración: Me decidí a escribir este breve ensayo impulsado... Read more
SERBIA: TANJUG TO BE 'RESTRUCTURED.'.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 6/24/2001; 103 words ; ...Vujovic and consist of prominent government and Tanjug officials. Tanjug dates back to the early days of the rule of Josip Broz Tito as the government's news agency. In more recent years, it became a mouthpiece of Milosevic. It is not clear whether... Read more