The Tito-Stalin Conflict and its Political Consequences over the International Regime of the Danube River
The Tito-Stalin Conflict and its Political Consequences over the International Regime of the Danube River

Summary/Abstract: The discrepancies arisen between the two totalitarian communist leaders - – JosephVissarionovici Stalin (The Soviet Union) and Josip Broz Tito (Yugoslavia) – contained in themselvesthe seed of destruction of the political and economic Stalinist monopoly regarding the Danube. Ourstudy proposes to identify, through scientific analysis of contemporary sources of the event, theaftermath of this conflict regarding the political evolution of the international regime of the Danube,as well as the manner in which the dissolution of the communist bloc affected the post-warinternational relations. Between 1948 and 1953, until the death of Stalin, the conflict blocked theDanube for both communist states from the river's basin as well as in terms of international trade thatcharacterized the previous period (interwar). Stalin viewed the Danube River as a factor of influenceand political pressure that meant to subordinate the small communist states. After Stalin's death(March 1953), Khrushchev had to make a series of major concessions regarding Yugoslavia and othercommunist states which led to the transformation of the international regime of the Danube and to a"thaw" between East and West.

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