Tito biography
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Tito
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Financial Times
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The Tablet
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Tito and the Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia
Knowing what to read was tricky. There is a lot of nostalgia towards Yogoslavia. To this day, many people are fond of it and have a lot of nostalgia for it. Not as much in the younger population, but significant nevertheless. In part by simply being in the past (most people are nostalgic about the past almost no matter how it was like), in part fueled by the semi cult figure of Tito (its leader), and also in part simply because many people had a good life during it.
I didn't want to read a source that was biased towards that nostalgia and wanted to paint Yogoslavia in an overly positive light, consciously or not. But on the other hand, I didn't want a biased account of it simply because it was a communist state. After some research, this book seemed relatively neutral in these regards. Not that the book doesn't have biases, all b
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More than a generation after Tito’s death, biographies of the Yugoslav statesman keep appearing apace. Why is that? What else is there to say about Tito, his life, and his legacy? And how do all these books on the same subject of historical record differ?
Three authors of biographies of Josip Broz Tito published since —Ivo Goldstein, Jože Pirjevec, and Geoffrey Swain—discuss their motivations for writing, how their books are distinct, and, of course Tito himself.
Featuring 11 versions of the song &#;Uz Maršala Tita&#; (With Marshal Tito, ). Josif Dzhugashvili, Vladimir Dedijer, and Phyllis Auty also make an appearance.
Listen: &#;Tito and His Biographers&#; (Episode #24)
Transcript: &#;Tito and His Biographers&#; (Episode #24)
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PETER KORCHNAK: This is Remembering Yugoslavia, the show exploring the memory of a country that no longer exists. I’m your host Peter Korchnak.
As an explorer of Yugoslavia’s memory I mostly deal with the fallout of Josip Broz Tito’s decisions from World War II to his death in and with how he has been remembered and perceived and represented since Along with this study I’ve formed a fair picture of Tito’s life; after all, you can’t study Yugoslavia’s his