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Josip Broz Tito

Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman, leader of the Partisans and longtime president.

Josip Broz, known as Tito, was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary who led the country as prime minister and president for decades.[1] Tito co-founded the Non-Aligned Movement and received 98 foreign decorations.[2] Josip Broz entered the world on 7 May 1892 in Kumrovec, a village located in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, which was then under Austro-Hungarian rule.[3]

Quick Facts

Office
President of Yugoslavia; 1st President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia
Took office
14 January 1953
Left office
4 May 1980

Facts from the source article.

Life and work

Drafted into the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1913, he became the youngest sergeant major in his regiment.[4][5][6] During World War II, he led the Partisan guerrilla movement, which took power in Yugoslavia by late 1943.[4] After the war, he served as prime minister, president, and marshal of Yugoslavia.[7] Under his leadership, Yugoslavia became a socialist federation that defied Soviet hegemony in 1948.[7]

Tito initiated a model of socialist self-management alongside Edvard Kardelj and Milovan Đilas.[7] Marija and Franjo Broz had either seven or eight children, with Josip being one of them; his upbringing was in the Roman Catholic faith.[3] After finishing his fourth year of schooling in 1905, at age 15 he traveled to Sisak where he secured a three-year locksmith apprenticeship with a Czech craftsman named Nikola Karas.[8][9] In 1915, during World War I, a Circassian cavalryman's lance wounded Broz; Russian forces captured him and subsequently transported him to a work camp situated in the Ural Mountains.[4][10][11]

Broz took part in the 1917 Russian Revolution and later, in 1920, became a member of the Communist Party while in Omsk.[4][12] By 1939 he had assumed the role of general secretary for the party, a position he held continuously until his death.[4]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Josip Broz Tito" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Josip Broz Tito" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Josip Broz Tito" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Willetts, "The Non-aligned Movement: The Origins of a Third World Alliance", 1978, p. xiv (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Josip Broz Tito" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Vinterhalter 1972, p. 43; Ridley 1994, p. 42; Ridley 1994, p. 42 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Josip Broz Tito" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "In Spies We Trust: The Story of Western Intelligence", OUP Oxford, 2013, p. 87; Batinić, "Women and Yugoslav Partisans: A History of World War II Resistance", Cambridge University Press, 2015, p. 3; Bremmer, "The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall", Simon & Schuster, 2007, p. 175 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Josip Broz Tito" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: West 1995, p. 32; Vinterhalter 1972, p. 43 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Josip Broz Tito" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: West 1995, p. 32; Swain 2010, p. 5; Ridley 1994, p. 42; Swain 2010, p. 5; Ridley 1994, p. 42 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Josip Broz Tito" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Palmberger, "Democratization in the Western Balkans: Promoting Multi-Ethnic Open Societies to Counter Radicalization and Polarization", Aspen Institute Germany, 2016, p. 103 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Josip Broz Tito" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Swain 2010, p. 5; Vinterhalter 1972, p. 43 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Josip Broz Tito" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Vinterhalter 1972, p. 43; Swain 2010, p. 5 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Wikipedia, "Josip Broz Tito" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Gilbert 2004, p. 138; Frankel 1992, p. 331 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  11. Wikipedia, "Josip Broz Tito" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: West 1995, p. 32; Swain 2010, p. 5; Swain 2010, p. 5; West 1995, p. 32; Ridley 1994, p. 42 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  12. Wikipedia, "Josip Broz Tito" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Ridley 1994, p. 42; Hr, "Marko Stričević je u Sibiru našao obitelj prve supruge o kojoj Tito nikad nije govorio. 'Oteo ju je po stepskoj tradiciji, bilo joj je 14 godina'", Telegram.hr; West 1995, p. 32; Hr, "Marko Stričević je u Sibiru našao obitelj prve supruge o kojoj Tito nikad nije govorio. 'Oteo ju je po stepskoj tradiciji, bilo joj je 14 godina'", Telegram.hr (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org

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