What happened to yugoslavia after tito died

The Yugoslav statesman Marshal Tito born became president of Yugoslavia in He directed the rebuilding of a Yugoslavia devastated in World War II and the welding of Yugoslavia's different peoples into unity until his death in From its creation in until is dissolution in the early s, Yugoslavia was a multinational state composed of numerous ethnic and religious groups.

It was made up of historical provinces which were first united into a single state in The building of a state proved a difficult task. The various ethnic groups were dissatisfied with their status in the new state, resented Serbian domination, and clamored for greater national and political rights.

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The national and religious groups were suspicious of each other. The country's economy was unstable throughout the interwar period, and the country was surrounded by enemy states dedicated to its destruction. Because of these conditions, Communist and fascist groups found fertile ground for their activities and sought to destroy established order. Among the Communists who advocated a revolutionary change was Josip Broz, who is commonly known as Marshal Tito.

Tito was born on May 25, , the seventh of 15 children of a peasant family of Kumrovec, a village near Zagreb, Croatia. After apprenticeship to a locksmith, he worked in Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, and Germany as a mechanic. In World War I he was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army, was wounded and captured by the Russians, and spent time in a prisoner-of-war camp.

Already a Social Democrat in Vienna in , he joined the Red Army after the Russian Revolution of October and identified himself with the Bolshevik forces in the Russian civil war. In Tito returned to Croatia and joined the Communist party of Yugoslavia, rising to the party's committee in Zagreb, and was sentenced to five years' imprisonment in for Communist activity.

Thereafter he spent several years in the Soviet Union , in being elected to the Central Committee and Politburo of the Yugoslav party.