Define Titoism
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DEFINE TITOISM "Now I had to take a new name. I adopted first the name of Rudi, but another comrade had the same name and so I was obliged to change it, adopting the name Tito. ...Why did I take this name 'Tito' and has it special significance? I took it as any other because it occurred to me at the moment."1 In 1948, the leaders of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia clashed over ideological and political issues. This conflict brought about the creation of a new Yugoslav doctrine that became the basis for Yugoslavia's domestic policies from the early 1950s and on. This new ideology became known as "Titoism," because it had been crafted by the great Yugoslav statesman, and it combined many ideologies that he had been exposed to during his younger years, such as Austro-Marxism, for example. However, the most important innovation was Tito's implementation of the core tenets...

