There’s a couple great in-depth Rev Left episodes on it. One that’s just Breht and then another with an interview with a communist Yugoslavia scholar

So I’ve heard good things about Tito and His Comrades (ha!) and Yugoslavia: A State That Withered Away is on my (long) reading list but I can’t attest to either of those books personally, having not read them yet.

There’s also Hoxha’s take on Yugoslavia here which is exactly what you’d expect from Hoxha. Whether or not that’s a good thing, at least you have to admit that the guy was consistent.

I’ve heard that Parenti’s book on Yugoslavia, To Kill a Nation is questionable but I don’t know enough about Yugoslavia to be able to make that call.

Edit: Lydall is supposed to be good on Yugoslavia too. These two books have a good reputation.

I will be interested in those, resources too. I grow up in that country, but my view has changed how I see it as I started understanding geopolitics.

I think partisan struggle was one of most important reasons for it to be what it was, while I haven’t accept that until I learned what Warshaw pact is.

The big difference comes from not being occupied by neither Russia nor the US after WW2, exactly because partisans liberated that country from Germans and were against Germany during whole war.

Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria… can complain about being occupied by Russia, but they just lost that war… what did tbey expect will happen if they lose? Nothing? Germany and Japan also got occupied.

All that just to point out that I think partisans had a lot to do with economy that happend latter.

And I think the same thing would happen in any free country (free as free of outside influence/colonisation/occupation), since it would be from the people to the people.

But I do understand why you don’t want those recommendations - you would be swamed by it, there is much more literature about fight that about society.