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Josip Broz Tito

president of Yugoslavia
Also known as: Josip Broz
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Ivo Banac
Professor of History, Yale University. Author of With Stalin Against Tito: Cominformist Splits in Yugoslav Communism and many others.
Ivo Banac
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Josip Broz Tito (born May 7, 1892, Kumrovec, near Zagreb, Croatia, Austria-Hungary [now in Croatia]—died May 4, 1980, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia [now in Slovenia]) was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. He was secretary-general (later president) of the Communist Party (League of Communists) of Yugoslavia (1939–80), supreme commander of the Yugoslav Partisans (1941–45) and the Yugoslav People’s Army (1945–80), and marshal (1943–80), premier (1945–53), and president (1953–80) of Yugoslavia. Tito was the chief architect of the “second...

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