Tito: President of Yugoslavia

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🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

A Yugoslav revolutionary leader, who served in every major conflict of his lifetime - Josip Broz Tito ruled Yugoslavia for 35 years. Successfully leading the establishment and maintenance of a socialist federation in Yugoslavia and balancing between the global superpowers of the Cold War, his contribution to history cannot be undermined. But his rule wasn't without controversy or violence; while he managed to balance ethnic and national tensions to some extent, his regime was criticised for human rights abuses, censorship, and limitations on individual freedoms all while Yugoslavia was under a one-party system. So who exactly was Tito, and what legacy did he leave behind?

In the third episode of our Dictators series, James welcomes Robert Niebuhr to the podcast, to take a deep dive into Tito's life and policies. Looking at Tito's nonalignment policy, international relations, and the legacy he's left behind in Eastern Europe today - what happened to Tito, and how can his rule still be felt today?

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0:00.0	Joseph Bro's Tito was a unique dictator. A man of war he fought in pretty much every major
0:07.6	conflict at the 20th century from the Russian Civil War to the World Wars and as a Cold War warrior he led Yugoslavia with an
0:15.6	iron fist standing up to both Stalin and the West. So what made Tito the
0:21.0	leader he became and how should history remember his firebrand politics
0:25.5	during the hottest days of the Cold War.
0:28.0	I'm your host, James Padden Rogers, this is warfare, and as part of our special dictators mini series we're taking a look at
0:34.4	Tito the guerrilla fighter revolutionary and statesman to take us through this history
0:39.8	we have Robert Nieba on the podcast Robert has spent years working on Titoism and the politics of
0:45.6	Yugoslavia having studied in Croatia, including at the University of Zagreb. He's spent many years
0:51.6	in former Yugoslavia and he's now at Arizona State University in the US
0:56.0	I know you're going to find this one fascinating it has all the warfare staples of the world wars and the Cold War
1:01.9	and if you want to investigate more on this
1:04.2	period of history well you can now pre-order my new book,
1:07.5	Precision, a history of American warfare where I track the American experience of
1:12.0	war weaponry and technology from the First World War to the modern day.
1:16.2	Just head over to my Instagram at James Rogers history and click the link in my bio,
1:21.5	but make sure you use the exclusive code warfare to get 30% off the
1:26.9	book.
1:27.9	But now here is Robert Nieber on Marshall Tito.
1:31.2	Enjoy.
1:40.0	Hi Robert, welcome to Warfare. How you doing today? Good in yourself. Yeah, good, thanks.
1:42.0	I'm morbidly excited to get into the topic of Tito. I think it's
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