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The 1948 Split and a New Round of Factional Struggles within the Communist Party of Yugoslavia: Parallel Biographies and Histories

Tito-Stalin split initiated a sequence of factional struggles in the Communist Party of Yu- goslavia, which had been a frequent occurrence almost since the days of its founding. For most of the Party membership, the existence of the conÇict, as well as its sources, were kept secret, so many Yugoslav communists were left to seek out the reasons for the conÇict on their own, and who thereby often imagined their own interpretations as they were at a loss for plausible explanations. ¹e CPY, pressed from without by ideological, military, economic and diplomatic pressures, as well as its own Stalinist substance from within, would drastically cut down any of the opposing and dissenting viewpoints. ¹rough the presentation of several parallel biographies, such as the one of the old Yugoslav communist Vicko Jelaska, this paper will show how the split with Stalin opened up a continuation of the factional struggles which had been present since Tito’s rise to power in the Party. ¹e losers in these earlier struggles would see the split as a new chance for regaining power in the Party with Stalin’s help. ¹e CPY leadership focused their attention on these individuals before the onset of mass repression. ¹e other “radical” faction of communists who had escaped or stayed in the USSR and other Bloc countries after 1948 will be examined in this paper. ¹ese examples and approach will help further deÀne the complex typologies of the split within the CPY after 1948.

CPY, Yugoslavia, Tito, Jelaska, Zerjavić.

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