Examines how a new state was created for all peoples of Yugoslavia and provides the first account of negotiations between the UN and Tito from 1943-1945. Author has visited former Yugoslavia for over 50 years, he first worked in UNRRA, the UN relief agency in 1943. Provides an in-depth historical survey from 1944 to 2004 and examines Tito's break with Stalin and his attempts to develop a socialist self-managed, multi-national society. Based on personal knowledge and on Yugoslav sources inc. 30,000 pages of transcripts of the Milosevic Trial. Challenges accepted views of the break up of the Federal state and sets out the responsibilities of the USA and of Germany

Author Biography

Michael Barratt Brown speaks Serbo-Croat and has been visiting Yugoslavia since it was re-born under Tito over 50 years ago. His books include The Yugoslav Tragedy; Third Way... Where to?; The Blair Revelation: Deliverance for Whom; Models In Political Economy, and many others