Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union in the Early Cold War by Rajak Svetozar

Author:Rajak, Svetozar.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Humanities
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2010-09-17T00:00:00+00:00

The document addressed the relations in the Soviet Bloc and within the international Communist movement in a ground breaking manner. Up to that point, Stalin’s imposition of absolute Soviet hegemony had been accepted by Communists throughout the world as the immutable postulate of Marxism–Leninism. The Resolution of the July Plenum, however, became the first official Soviet Party document to promulgate equality in relations between socialist countries and to call for an end to Soviet hegemony. In a further historic first, the document allowed for the existence of individual roads to socialism. Speaking at the Plenum against bourgeois nationalism, as the enemy of proletarian internationalism, Khrushchev warned against the ‘state chauvinism’. This was an implicit condemnation of Soviet hegemony and Stalin’s chauvinism. Using ‘the Yugoslav case’ as pretext, Khrushchev underlined that,

at the time of 1948, the Soviet Government … seized upon methods and activities that negated the national feelings of the Yugoslavs. Thus, the USSR, a huge power, which now with China represents a vast part of the world that is building socialism, has a responsibility to be very alert and careful towards the national feelings of peoples, in particular smaller peoples…. This is important for the strengthening of the socialist ‘lager’ .109

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