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Tito
About this book
Inspirational partisan leader; doctrinaire communist and yet a thorn in Moscow's side; leading light in the Non Aligned Movement. The break-up of Yugoslavia, the country Tito, the Croat turned Yugoslav had created was inevitable after his death in 1980.
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Historical BiographiesChronology
| Year | Age | Life |
| 1892 | Josip Broz born in Kumrovec, Croatia. | |
| 1900 | 8 | Starts working on farm while also attending school. |
| 1904 | 12 | 12 Begins full-time cow-herding work. |
| 1907 | 15 | Goes to Sisak to work as a waiter. |
| 1910 | 18 | Works in Zagreb, seeks work in Ljubljana and Trieste. |
| 1911 | 19 | Returns to work in Zagreb, then in Kamnik, Slovenia. |
| 1912 | 20 | Travels in Germany and Austria-Hungary, lives near Vienna with his brother. |
| 1913 | 21 | Conscripted into Austro-Hungarian army, becomes staff sergeant. |
| Year | History | Culture |
| 1892 | Pan-Slav Conference in Cracow. Gladstone becomes British prime minister. | Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Mahler, Symphony No 1 |
| 1900 | Boer War: relief of Mafeking. Assassination of King Umberto I of Italy. | Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams. Chekhov, Uncle Vanya. |
| 1904 | Russo-Japanese War. | Conrad, Nostromo. Puccini, Madame Butterfly. |
| 1907 | Lenin leaves Russia. Hague Peace Conference. | Kipling wins Nobel Prize for Literature. Lehar, The Merry Widow. |
| 1910 | Revolt in Albania. Montenegro proclaimed a kingdom. | Forster, Howard’s End. Matisse, The Dance. |
| 1911 | Turkish-Italian War. Winston Churchill appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. | D H Lawrence, The White Peacock. Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre. |
| 1912 | Albania declares independence. First Balkan War: Balkan League takes Macedonia from the Porte. Sinking of the Titanic. | Synge, Playboy of the Western World. Picasso, The Violin. |
| 1913 | Second Balkan War: Bulgaria turns on Allies – is defeated. | Mann, Death in Venice. First Charlie Chaplin movies. |
| Year | Age | Life |
| 1914 | 22 | The First World War. Posted to Carpathian front. |
| 1915 | 23 | Wounded and captured by the Russians; recovers in Siberia. |
| 1917 | 25 | In St Petersburg for the July Days. Escapes from the Provisional Government to Omsk. |
| 1919 | 27 | Marries Pelagea Belusova ('Polka') in Omsk. |
| 1920 | 28 | Joins Communist Party in Russia. Returns to Croatia. |
| 1921 | 29 | Moves to Veliko Trojstvo until 1925. |
| 1924 | 32 | Elected to Party district committee. |
| 1925 | 33 | Works in shipya... |
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Introduction
- Historical background of Yugoslavia
- Origin
- From imperial soldier to Bolshevik
- Return to the Balkans
- The ambitious revolutionary
- Invasion, Resistance & Revolution
- My Enemy’s Enemy
- Victory
- The break with Stalin
- Liberalisation?
- Non-Alignment
- The Fall of Ranković
- Structural cracks
- The Twilight
- Legacy
- Notes
- Chronology
- Furthur Reading
- Acknowledgements
- Picture Source
- Index