![]() The article examines how Tito sought to use Yugoslavia’s nonaligned status to boost his domestic legitimacy in the eyes of key elites and even, to a degree, in the eyes of the wider population. Although he did carry out reforms of Yugoslavia’s Stalinist system in the 1960s, he maintained an authoritarian Communist polity until the end of his life. After a bitter rift emerged with the Soviet Union in 1948, Tito moved closer to the West for several years but never proved willing to shift to democratic politics. This article focuses on Tito’s effort to use foreign policy actions on behalf of his domestic goals.
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