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In 1948, the Cominform, the Soviet-dominated organization that represented communist parties throughout Eastern Europe, expelled its Yugoslav branch, the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, for "nationalist" tendencies. The following year, Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslavia's leader, began mass arrests of suspected Stalinists. Prior to the expulsion, everyone in Yugoslavia had been a Stalin supporter—or claimed to be—and the result was a campaign comparable to the Stalinist terror of the 1930s.
Using previously unexamined archival material and drawing on interviews with the few remaining survivors of Goli Otok, historian Martin Previšić delves into the origins of political repression under Tito and the daily workings of the prison camp island. Over this period, Yugoslav security forces arrested some 13,000 people and imprisoned them on Goli Otok, or "Barren Island," a desolate prison island off the coast of Croatia, where they were subjected to brutal treatment rivaling that in any Soviet gulag. Originally published in Croatian in 2019, this book is the first in English to fully examine this shocking and revealing episode from the region's past.
Foreword by Norman M. Naimark
Preface to the US Edition
Preface to the Croatian Edition
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1. How Stalin Stopped Being a Comrade: A Brief History of the Conflict Between Tito and Stalin
2. (Who Were) Stalin's Supporters: Meeting the Cominformists
3. The UDBA Kozachok: Interrogating the Cominformists
4. In the Name of the People! Punishing and Sentencing the Cominformists
5 A Train to Parts Unknown (Military P.O. Box no. 3234): Transporting the Cominformists to Goli Otok
6. Freedom Surrounded by the Sea: Establishing a Camp on Goli Otok
7. The Barren Archipelago: The Camps for Interning the Cominformists in Yugoslavia
8. Socialist Self-Management on Goli Otok: The Organization of the Camp
9. From Morning to Night: Day on Goli Otok
10. The Pedagogy of the New Class: The Political Reeducation of the Cominformists
11. The Marble Company: Labor and Production on Goli Otok
12. The Partisan Plague Rages Again: Sickness and Death on Goli Otok
13. An Adriatic Bolshoi: The Cultural Side of Goli Otok
14. Carpetbaggers Come Home: Peter's Pit
15. The Mathematical Meaning of Violence: Goli Otok in Numbers
16. From One Island to Another: The Cominformists at Liberty
Conclusion
Can You See Moscow from Barren Island?
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography