Born in Croatia on May 25, 1892 of a native peasant and a Slovene mother.
Kumrovec lies in the Croatian Zagorje and Croatia was still under Austro-Hungarian rule. Broz worked as a mechanic in small workshops. During World War I, he served in the Austro-Hungarian army. He was captured as a prisoner of war and transported to the Russian interior. He joined a Bolshevik group while in prison and after escaping, he joined the Bolshevik Red Guards several months before the October Revolution.
He was registered as a member of the Communist party. Back in Yugoslavia, he continued his revolutionary work as a secretary of a metal union. He was picked up and spent six years in prison. He was released in 1934 and joined the Comintern in Moscow. Visited Moscow several times and was appointed Secretary of Yugoslav Communist Party in 1937. His success was due in part to the internal rivalry of communist leaders. In January 1939, he was officially appointed general secretary of the Yugoslav Communist Party.
After Nazi invasion, set up his Partisans in Southern Serbia in 1941, and led by far the most powerful resistance movement in Europe. By end of the War, Tito’s forces had control of the whole country. Refused to take Stalin’s direction, and was expelled from the Cominform in 1948. Remained leader of the country till his death in 1980.
From then on, Tito had a major voice in all the ensuing phases of the Yugoslav revolution. During World War II, he became commander in chief of the partisan armed forces. In 1943, the Second Session of the Anti-Fascist Council of the National Liberation of Yugoslavia established the second Yugoslavia as a federal socialist republic of six republics. Tito had to make use of all his charisma to convince his comrade-partisans that all peoples of Yugoslavia should be granted equal rights. The partisan struggle ended with a complete victory of the communists. Supported strategically by their allies, both of the West and the East, complying formally with some demands for a multi-party system, Tito could form his first government on March 7, 1945.
More dangerous for Tito’s political career was the clash with the USSR. The Cominform conflict led to a break with Moscow. Tito’s internal power base was threatened as well, and large-scale purges in the party were bitterly needed. Needed also was an alternative ideology. In the beginning of the 1950s self-management was rediscovered in Marx’s writings and step by step introduced in Yugoslavia.
After the fall of hardliner Ranković, economic and political liberalization broke through and this threatened the party monopoly anew. At the same time, on advice of the Slovene Edvard Kardelj, he pushed through constitutional reforms to take the wind out of the sails of nationalism. By granting more autonomy, responsibility and formal self-government to the republics, he hoped to reduce the tensions between the federal units. In the same spirit, he set up a federal presidency structure to ensure the continuity of the system after his death.
In international affairs, Tito profited much from the rivalries of the two blocs during the Cold War. He played a leading role in the movement of the so-called Non-Aligned Countries.
Tito died in May 1980 and the structures set up to ensure continuity functioned more or less satisfactorily for a few years. Then, divergent aspirations could no longer be reconciled and the federal structure exploded.
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I'm about to finish my third year of college and realising that I regret choosing this degree
I should have done history instead. I don't want to learn about philosophy anymore
I regret my history major, because everything I learned turned out to be wrong anyways.
lmao fair
at least in philosophy when we're taught bullshit we're allowed to disagree with it
History is a lot of fun, but it's a terrible degree unless you want to teach K-12. Most history departments are shrinking if anything, and there isn't much of a private sector for it. People make fun of philosophy sometimes but it actually has okay job prospects.
t. would've gotten a history degree if there were more jobs
I would much rather do something I enjoy that isn't profitable tbh. I don't have any plans for a job when I get out of college beyond working in a kitchen anyway.
Thankfully my degree isn't only philosophy (and its not like I don't like philosophy, but its all I'm doing this semester. One or two electives would have been enough).
Wait, what jobs await philosophy? I regret my CS and Psych! (I am terrible at job searching)
The bulk of it is definitely academia, but a lot of organizations will hire a philosopher or two in a consulting/ethics roles.
That said, unless you have a graduate degree, you'll probably have more luck in the CS end. There might even be AI ethics positions that would benefit from both, but I don't know if that's much of a thing.
It's apparently terrible if you want to teach K-12. I've heard the humanities generally has a major surplus, but it's particularly acute for history majora and there is an larger proportion of people with advanced degrees to compete against.
Really? I was under the impression that teachers of all types are needed most places.
I'm partly used to the Canadian teacher job market, where it's a competitive position because it has a decent salary and defined benefit pension plan. But I was under the impression the humanities teacher job market was rough sort of regardless.
Honestly I don't know anything about the Canadian job market
You're probably right
bored out of my mind ab to start my 5th year of my compsci degree next year that i rly have no interest in working with later
Yeah it be like that. I have a 1500 word essay about Thomas Aquinas due tomorrow and I do not have any thoughts about Thomas Aquinas. I really don't know what I'm gonna do with this degree
I assume your choice wasn't made on employability, but silver lining is philosophy majors tend to do better after graduation. I know there's like the LSAT meme, but even then I find hiring managers and (STEM) graduate admissions officers respect the background a bit more.
I say STEM because that's the only place I know admissions people. Caveat is that I was in math and we had a logic group
Can you swing to a masters in history after?