Power Game in Tito’s Yugoslavia : Conundrum of Aleksandar Ranković’s Overthrow from Power
Power Game in Tito’s Yugoslavia : Conundrum of Aleksandar Ranković’s Overthrow from Power

Summary/Abstract: Article strives to explain the ousting of Aleksandar Ranković through rivalry within the League of Communists of Yugoslavia that originated from both Party and state crises. Reforms adopted in 1950s, made Yugoslavia more difficult to control from the federal level, since republican and other centers saw their opportunity in self-management to expand power on account of the federal government. Whole process is observed from the standpoint of a struggle for power within the LCY, and the state and question how much Yugoslavia needed to be centralized. Tito put in a tremendous effort to create an image that Ranković’s overthrow was in fact a continuum in Party’s policy, neglecting the facts that they had been the closest associates till 1963. Ranković was falsely accused for deviations of the Security apparatus in an attempt to take power by force. Hence, this article tries to reveal structural reasons for his downfall.

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