Tito, Hebrang, and the Croat Question, 1943-1944
Tito, Hebrang, and the Croat Question, 1943-1944

Summary/Abstract: This study examines the struggle between Andrija Hebrang, Croat Communist leader, and Josip Broz Tito, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY), over the best approach to the Croat Question as the party came to power during the war. Hebrang is an extremely controversial figure in Yugoslav historiography and has been the subject of much inaccurate speculation. After he was denounced as an Ustaša, Nazi, and Cominform spy, Hebrang's wartime activities were omitted or obscured in most historical accounts of this period, and Western treatments of him have also been sparse. Yet an examination of his role is crucial to understanding the CPY' s efforts to build a new partystate during the war. [...]

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