Tito's Gulag by Martin Previi?, Desmond Maurer, Johannah Maurer - 9781503629103

Name: Tito's Gulag by Martin Previi?, Desmond Maurer, Johannah Maurer - 9781503629103
Brand: Stanford University Press

Stanford University Press

Tito's GulagA History of the Prison Island of Goli Otok\nAuthor(s): Martin Previi?, Desmond Maurer, Johannah Maurer\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503629103, 978-1503629103\nSynopsis\nIn 1948, the Cominform, the Soviet-dominated organization that represented communist parties throughout Eastern Europe, expelled its Yugoslav branch, the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, for \""nationalist\"" tendencies. The following year, Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavia's leader, began mass arrests of suspected Stalinists. Prior to the expulsion, everyone in Yugoslavia had been a Stalin supporteror claimed to beand the result was a campaign comparable to the Stalinist terror of the 1930s. \n\n Using previously unexamined archival material and drawing on interviews with the few remaining survivors of Goli Otok, historian Martin Previi? delves into the origins of political repression under Tito and the daily workings of th.