TY - JOUR
T1 - Imprisoning “Enemies of the State” in a Communist Dictatorship: The Record of Tito’s Yugoslavia, 1945–1953
AU - Nielsen, Christian Axboe
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
PY - 2021/11
Y1 - 2021/11
N2 - Even though the Yugoslav Communists were expelled from the Soviet bloc in 1948, the Communist regime in Yugoslavia headed by Josip Broz Tito had embraced many of the repressive policies associated with Stalinist dictatorships. Based on newly available archival materials from Bosnia and Herzegovina, this article examines policies related to the incarceration of “enemies of the state” during the first several years of Tito's regime. By focusing on policy discussions and implementation, the article shows how government, state security, and prison officials dealt with questions relating to prison conditions, penal policy, and rehabilitation. These documents permit scholars to begin moving beyond the existing focus on well-documented events of mass killing and oppression during the early years of Communist rule—such as the Goli Otok prison camp for alleged Cominformists and mass executions in late 1944—to gain a better understanding of how Yugoslav officials viewed and debated penal policies.
AB - Even though the Yugoslav Communists were expelled from the Soviet bloc in 1948, the Communist regime in Yugoslavia headed by Josip Broz Tito had embraced many of the repressive policies associated with Stalinist dictatorships. Based on newly available archival materials from Bosnia and Herzegovina, this article examines policies related to the incarceration of “enemies of the state” during the first several years of Tito's regime. By focusing on policy discussions and implementation, the article shows how government, state security, and prison officials dealt with questions relating to prison conditions, penal policy, and rehabilitation. These documents permit scholars to begin moving beyond the existing focus on well-documented events of mass killing and oppression during the early years of Communist rule—such as the Goli Otok prison camp for alleged Cominformists and mass executions in late 1944—to gain a better understanding of how Yugoslav officials viewed and debated penal policies.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85118607838&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1162/jcws_a_01041
DO - 10.1162/jcws_a_01041
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85118607838
SN - 1520-3972
VL - 23
SP - 124
EP - 152
JO - Journal of Cold War Studies
JF - Journal of Cold War Studies
IS - 4
ER -