Josip Broz Tito (1892-1980) was the Croatian-born communist revolutionary who built and led socialist Yugoslavia. Born the seventh of fifteen children in the village of Kumrovec, he trained as a locksmith, was wounded and captured on the Russian front in the First World War, and absorbed Bolshevik ideas in Russia before returning home to rise through the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. He took the name Tito in 1934, after prison, and during the Second World War he organized the Partisan resistance against German and Italian occupation. After 1945 he ruled the new federation as its president. His break with Stalin in 1948 created an independent communist path, called Titoism, marked by worker self-management, trade with the West and a policy of nonalignment between the Cold War blocs.
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RolePresident of Yugoslavia and revolutionary 1 Role
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President of Yugoslavia and revolutionary
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Tito managed to successfully distance himself and his country from Soviet leader Joseph Stalin
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Born May 7, 1892
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Died May 4, 1980
In Era: The Cold War, Opening paragraph [in-era]
During the entire Cold War period, Tito took his country down a liberalized path
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