CONTEMPORARY SERBIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY ON THE FORMATION OF THE YUGOSLAV NON-ALIGNMENT POLICY

The article deals with the problem of the formation of Yugoslav foreign policy after the emergence of the Soviet-Yugoslav conflict in 1948 in the coverage of Yugoslav and modern Serbian historiography. The conflict became a watershed in the foreign policy of the Yugoslav state: friendly and allied relations with the USSR and the countries of the Soviet bloc gave way to hostility, which forced Belgrade to seek economic, and then military and political help and support to the West, primarily to the United States. In the first post-war years, the Yugoslav leadership sought to put its country in the center of Balkan politics, to occupy a leading position in the communist movement in the region, which caused misunderstanding and irritation both in the Kremlin and in the neighboring states. The official party picture of the post-war history of Yugoslavia and the interpretation of its foreign policy as presented in the works of J. Broz Tito, E. Kardel, M. Piade, S. Vukmanovich-Tempo, career diplomat L. Mates and others, was almost completely reproduced in the 1960-1980s Yugoslav historiography. Such historians as B. Tadich, M. Stoykovich, V. Gavranov, S. Stoyanovich emphasized that in 1948 there was a logical clash of independent and free Marxist theory and practice with state bureaucratic socialism. The roots of non-aligned politics in this version of historical retrospective are chronologically located in the irst post-war years, and more precisely in June 1945, when there was a well-known crisis around Trieste. With the beginning of the collapse of socialist Yugoslavia, a process of reappraisal, irst of all by Serbian historians, of the old historiographical theses based on party attitudes. In the works of D. Bogetic (not immediately), I. Chavoski, D. Bondzhich, S. Selinich, J. Tripkovich, A. Zhivotich, L. Dimich there was a turn from the heroic, party tradition in the description and analysis of foreign policy, its non-aligned component, to its critical reflection, rejection of the propaganda description of the processes taking place.

Yugoslavia, the Soviet-Yugoslav conflict of 1948, Yugoslav historiography of the foreign policy of the socialist period, non-alignment policy. I. Broz Tito, the USSR, USA and Yugoslav foreign policy, modern Serbian historiography

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