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in the initial two or three years, subsequently gave way to a more
violent imitation of Stalinism.
It is noteworthy, however, that in this initial period the
Yugoslavs rejected this strategy and insisted that Yugoslavia was
a proletarian dictatorship, essentially imitating Soviet experience
and ruled openly by the dictatorship of the Communist party. How
ever, what Tito and his associates failed to realize was that sub-
ordination was the essence of Stalinism, and that a regime which was
more Stalinist than Stalin desired at any given moment was, in effect,
a regime rebellious to Stalinism.
National communism in Yugoslavia was a by-product of the
Soviet-engineered expulsion of this nation from the Cominform. It
was not an act of open rejection by the Yugoslavs of the Soviet-
Stalinist model. The Yugoslav way to socialism subsequently emerged
through trial and error and because of disappointment with the Com-
munist Party of the Soviet Union. It was only then that Yugoslavia
proceeded to manufacture its own so-called social democracy end
began to develop its own perspective for international problems.
It was then that Yugoslavia began to reinterpret the Soviet Ution
as a state not truly engaged in the construction of socialism, but
one practising state capitalism, a system in which the means of pro-
duction, formally owned by the state, are controlled by a small
elite group.
Despite their reinterpretation of the Soviet soens and their
new conception of their socialist experiment, the Yugoslavs have
Reproduced at the Richard Nixon Library and Museum.
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