When Stalin died, on March 5, 1953, a letter was found in his office that had been written by Tito. Stalin had tried to kill Tito on numerous occasions—the two had been at odds with one another ...

Stalin was a mass murderer with a penchant for poison. But historian Joze Pirjavec claims he may have got a taste of his own medicine after trying to kill Tito (pictured) once too often.

Perhaps the sweetest of Old Balkan Hand Tito’s satisfactions was the vengeance he was taking on the men who had spoken loudest in denunciation of him during his 1948 quarrel with Stalin.

Tito tried orally, and also by writing to Stalin, to explain away the alleged statement Stalin was not appeased. The next friction we know of (or rather suspect, for it is not set forth in the ...

Stalin was prepared to go to war against Tito. Tito's forces were much smaller than anything that Stalin could have brought to bear, so war would not have been in Tito's interest, quite the contrary.

In his book Tito In Tovarisi, historian Joze Pirjavec puts forward mainly circumstantial evidence to support his poisoning theory. Crucially, however, he has used former Yugoslav archives that have ...

Back in 1931, when Stalin was ruthlessly liquidating the kulaks in his drive to collectivize the land, he gave one of his rare interviews to outsiders. His guests were George Bernard Shaw and Lady ...

Tito could not follow Stalin's orders, Mather reported, because he was aware of his countrymen's revolutionary temper, and because of the Marshal's own hatred for aristocracy in any form.