History Of Europe

Aram Cano Dajlala

History of Modern Europe

29/March/11’

Christopher Walsch, Assoc Prof, Dr.

“The communist come to power”

“The communists come to power”
There has been much written on the history of “communists come to power” but still, there are questions and problems that are fully or partially disclosed in the history of modern Europe.
This book review will demonstrate whathas been published on a topic “communists come to power”, but the part that I will explain is about of all the changes that have occurred in Yugoslavia since 1945, one of the most interesting is the development of a new theory and role for the communists.
The communists under Tito emerged from the war as sole rulers of Yugoslavia, without major Soviet assistance. King Petar surrendered his powersto three-member regency in late 1944, and under Allied pressure Tito and Subasic agreed to merge their governments. On March 7, 1945, a single provisional Yugoslav government took office with Tito as prime minister and war minister, Subasic in charge of foreign affairs, and Tito supporters occupying almost all cabinet posts. A communist-dominated provisional assembly convened in August, and thegovernment held elections to choose a constituent assembly in november. New election laws barred alleged wartime collaborators from voting and all candidates had to be nominated by the communist-controlled people's front, the descendant of the wartime people's liberation front that encompassed all non-collaborationist political parties and organizations.
The police harassed noncommunistpoliticians and suppressed their newspapers during the election campaign. Subasic and other non-communist ministers resigned in protest, while the Serbian Radicals, the Croatian Peasant Party, and other parties boycotted the election. People's Front candidates won 90 percent of the vote.
The newly elected Constituent Assembly dissolved the monarchy and established the Federal People's Republic ofYugoslavia on November 29, 1945. Two months later, it adopted a Soviet-style constitution that provided for a federation of six republics under a strong central government. In an effort to prevent Serbian domination of the new state, the regime made separate republics of Montenegro and Macedonia and created within Serbia itself an ethnically mixed Autonomous Province of Vojvodina and a mostly AlbanianAutonomous Region of Kosovo. At a later date, the regime further divided Serbian territory by recognizing three "nations," the Serbs, Croats, and Muslims, in an attempt to overcome competing Serbian and Croatian claims to that republic. The constitution established a rubberstamp federal assembly and a presidential council to administer the federal government. It also included restricted wording on theinviolability of the home, the right to work, freedom of speech, association, and religion, and other rights. Tito headed the party, government, and armed forces; his party functionaries oversaw the industries and supervised republican and local officials.
Tito's government repaired wartime damage, instituted land reform, and established a Soviet-style economic system. United Nations deliveriesof supplies prevented starvation and contagion but did not solve the fundamental problem of rural poverty. In August 1945, the regime seized remaining large and medium-size land holdings along with property belonging to banks, churches, monasteries, absentee landlords, private companies, and the expelled German minority. It gave half the land to peasants and allocated the rest to state-ownedenterprises. The authorities postponed forced collectivization but required peasants to sell any surplus to the state at below-market prices. Peasants received incentives to join newly founded state and cooperative farms. The Communists quickly implemented the Stalinist model for rapid industrial development; by 1948 they had nationalized virtually all the country's wealth except privately held land....