Брионски пленум 1966. године. Покушај историографског тумачења догађаја
The Brioni Plenum of 1966. An Attempt at Historiographical Interpretation of the Event

Summary/Abstract: Brioni Plenum in 1966 was one of the turning points in history of communistic Yugoslavia. Aleksandar Rankovic, the most powerfull official after Josip Broz, was ousted from power in accusation for consipracy against Josip Broz together with other 1 6 high ranking officials of service of state security (SDB). Even now all reasons of Rankovic's downfall are unknown. Main hypothesis is that he was resisting the reforms of decentralization which was going in direction of creating the Yugolsavia a confederal state. In 1963 Rankovic had become vice president of Yugoslavia and many thought that he will be the Tito's successor. With Rankovic as president of Yugoslavia it would be hard to imagine that crucial changes of the system will be made. This was unacceptable for the agenda of Slovenian, Croatian, Macedonian and majority of Serbian members of LCY. Rankovic's closeness to Broz and his great influence were perhaps crucial. This article is an effort to give answer about his downfall in the angle of great disagreements within LCY and efforts of Josip Broz to eliminate that "gap" by ousting Rankovic. But still is not definitively clear who was the mastermind of events. But some things are sure - Broz was the main figure in his downfall. Without his authority nothing could be done. The second is that without the help of Serbian party members on Federal and Republic level also nothing could be done. They supported removal of Rankovic in desire for further social and economical reform. Also the article is pretending to give hypothesis that not Rankovic, but Josip Broz was the main target. Ousting Rankovic, removing other centralists would disable possibility for center to return to the old Party measures for settling problems in the state. He became obstacle for reformists, but also knew much about everyone's week spots as former head of SDB. Even more interesting is that he was never prosecuted for accusations. Brioni Plenum was heavy blow to Yugoslav SDB, especially within officials of Serbian origin. Weakening the apparatus of repression indeed made liberalization in society, but it was of short breath. Thanks to latter development and historical distance, now we know that there was no Rankovic s conspiracy and that he didn't put wire in Tito's private rooms, and that he was not main threat to reforms and to Broz.

• Details
• Contents