A Soviet-Yugoslav ideological war: the exchange of letters of April-June 1958
Journal: International Journal on Humanistic Ideology
Year: 2015

Josip Broz Tito's refusal to accept Moscow's guardianship would start a Soviet-Yugoslav schism in 1948.1 However, after Stalin's death (on March 5, 1953), new power structure installed in Kremlin would gradually bring Soviet-Yugoslav relations onto a normal path. The artisan of this political shift was Nikita Khrushchev, who in June 1954 started an exchange of letters with Josip Broz Tito aimed normalizing relations between two states and two political parties. Belgrade's reaction was positive,