embraced the Soviet Union and turned his back on his Western benefactors. In time, quarreling with the Soviet Union and taking Yugoslavia his own way did not take him long. He was to build and shape Yugoslav politics to his own specifications until his death. Tito was unique in the breadth and scope of his influence, for he was not only personally responsible for the creation of postwar Yugoslavia, but was also, in the end, directly and indirectly accountable for its disintegration (Rezun, 1995, pp. 51-85).
Yugoslavia's domestic situation during the period following the Soviet-Yugoslav split cannot be separated from the examination of foreign policy changes. Yugoslavia's economy was being decentralized at a rapid pace. In the wake of the economic changes came political changes. A new constitution diminished the control of the central government by giving extensive power to the republics. The six separate republics of Yugoslavia (Montenegro, Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Slovenia) and Serbia's tw
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