Anti-Stalinist Left - Titoism

Titoism

At first, the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and the regime it established through the successful war of liberation against the Axis invaders by the partizans was modeled on that of Soviet Union, and Tito was considered to be "Stalin's most faithful pupil". However, in 1948, the two leaders broke apart and Tito's aides (most notably Edvard Kardelj, Milovan Djilas and Moša Pijade) began a theoretical effort to develop a new brand of Socialism that would be both Marxist-Leninist in nature and anti-Stalinist in practice. The result was the Yugoslav system of socialist workers' self-management, also known Titoism, based on the organizing every productive activities of society into "self-managed units".

Djilas, particularly, wrote extensively against Stalinism and was radically critical of the bureaucratic apparatus built by Bolshevism in Soviet Union. Ironically, he later grew critical of his own regime as well and became a dissident in Yugoslavia. He was imprisoned but later pardoned and died in his homeland as a free citizen.