POSJET JOSIPA BROZA TITA VELIKOJ BRITANIJI 1953. GODINE
JOSIP BROZ TITO’S VISIT TO GREAT BRITAIN IN 1953.

Summary/Abstract: The good relationship developed between Yugoslavia and Great Britain during the 1950s, inspite of ideological and political differences, has to examined within the context of the then-dominant politics of the Cold War in Europe and the world. The break between Yugoslavia and the Soviet-led Eastern Bloc was seen in western circles as an opportunity to similarly draw other “satellite” countries toward the west. As this policy was shown to be unsuccessful, Yugoslavia became an example of a country building socialism yet politically tied to the west, and as such came to play a new role in the strategic considerations of the North Atlantic alliance. Yugoslavia drew short-term as well as long-term benefits from this new position: it obtained economic and military aid no longer forthcoming from the “peoples’ democracies” that allowed it to realize its economic plans. Likewise, the political advantages were also considerable: even though it was still considered a communist country, the economic and administrative reforms that went along with ideological experimentation at this time drew the interest of western countries which expected it to develop along the lines of western democratic models.

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