CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2021
| Author | Stanimirovic, Nemanja |
|---|---|
| Title | Self-managing the brotherhood and unity Understanding Tito's approach to nationalism |
| Summary | This thesis presents an account of intellectual historian analysis of Josip Broz Tito’s stances on the national question. Thesis approaches the theme by putting Tito’s stances on the national question into a relation to his stances on the economy. The main thesis’ argument is that all the questions relating to his approach, such as the reasons for his failure and the intellectual origins of his approach, cannot be answered without considering his stance on economy. Tito’s thought is contextualised in the first part within the linguistic context of other Marxists – Otto Bauer, Vladimir Lenin, Rosa Luxemburg, Joseph Stalin, and the Yugoslav Communists from the interwar period. Each of the authors’ approach is analysed and put into mutual conversation by relating to their stances on the economy. In the second part, Tito’s thought is contextualised within the context of evolving self-management model after the Second World War. Tito’s formula of brotherhood and unity is thus evaluated in relation to the role it plays for the development of the self-management model. In approaching the theme in such a way, the thesis finds firstly that Tito’s approach was most similar to Stalin’s, which is derived from their shared theoretical understanding of how socialism should look like, and secondly, that Tito’s approach to the national question played the role of fostering Yugoslav national identity for the purpose of fostering the Yugoslav economy. |
| Supervisor | Miller, Michael; Tokic, Mate; |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2021/stanimirovic_nemanja.pdf |
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