BALANCING TRUST: YUGOSLAV COMMUNISTS AND GERMAN SOCIAL DEMOCRATS (SPD) 1950–1953

Abstract

Yugoslav and German “questions” emerged in the early 1950s as specific issues in international politics marked by the Cold War. Through them, the strengths of the opposing blocs led by the superpowers, the USA and the USSR, were measured in various ways and with different intensities. This paper attempts to reconstruct and analyze the initial phase of the relationship between Yugoslav Communists and German Social Democrats, from the establishment of closer contacts to the change in the foreign policy situation after Stalin’s death. The paper is mainly based on research using unpublished archived materials from domestic sources and relevant domestic and foreign literature.

Keywords

• yugoslav communists
• german social democrats
• yugoslavia
• fr germany
• cold war