Josip Broz Tito, leader of Yugoslavia, broke with Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, in the years following World War II. Although presented by both sides as an ideological dispute, their conf
In 1943, the Yugoslav Communist leadership transformed the AVNOJ into a new Yugoslav deliberative body.
The Red Army, supported by the Yugoslav Partisans, captured Belgrade in October 1944.
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin met Yugoslav officials in Moscow in February 1948, shortly before the split.
A prison camp was built on the Goli Otok to detain people convicted of supporting Stalin after the split from the Soviet Union.
The Informbiro period was an era of Yugoslavia's history following the Tito–Stalin split in mid-1948 that lasted until the country's partial rapprochement with the Soviet Union in 1955 with the signin
Tito–Stalin split
…public in 1948, it was portrayed as an ideological dispute to avoid the impression of a power struggle within the Eastern Bloc. The split ushered in the Informbiro period of purges within the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. It was accompanied by a significant level of disruption to the Yugoslav economy, which had previously…
Aleksandar Ranković established a special anti-Cominform staff in the Yugoslav State Security Administration.
Goli Otok prison camp was built to hold people convicted of supporting Stalin after the split from the USSR.
Arso Jovanović headed an unsuccessful coup d'état and was subsequently killed while fleeing to Romania.
Yugoslavia saw large-scale labour-intensive infrastructure works, such as construction of New Belgrade where this photo was taken.