Disgruntled Fighters against Tito
Disgruntled Fighters against Tito

Summary/Abstract: Vojtěchovský, Ondřej: Z Prahy proti Titovi! Jugoslávská prosovětská emigracev Československu [From Prague against Tito! Yugoslav Pro-Soviet Emigration inCzechoslovakia]. Praha. Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy, 2012, 695 pp. The publication in question describes the live of almost 200 Yugoslav political exiles, who, after the dispute between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in 1948,settled permanently in Czechoslovakia, where they could manifest their loyalty to Stalin and opposition to Josip Broz Tito. The reviewer appreciates the depth with which the author discusses the microcosm the exiles lived in, which in some respect resembled a ghetto, and he presents a vivid picture of the ideology and the atmosphere, fraught with passion, of the founding phase of the communist regimes. Delving into the “Yugoslav Question,” he casts light on some relations and mechanisms in the operation of the dictatorship in Czechoslovakia, and it is this second dimension, at least according to the reviewer, which elevates the work clearly above the usual standards. One of the marked weak points, according the reviewer, is the absence of a theoretical basis of interpretation.

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