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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The post-World War II Communist policies and practices associated with Marshal Tito, especially a Communist nation's assertion of its interests in opposition to the Soviet Union.

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  • noun an adaptation of Marxist-Leninist ideology named after Yugoslav communist leader Josip Broz Tito, characterized by lacking the status of a satellite state, especially of the Soviet Union.

Etymologies

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Tito +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • Now why, if Titoism is so damaging, have the Soviets not done away with Tito and his following before this?

    Stalin's Biggest Headache 1950

  • The Soviets themselves are in fact the best authorities for my claim that Titoism is a serious challenge to Moscow's leadership.

    Stalin's Biggest Headache 1950

  • Titoism is a very serious heresy in the world church of Communism.

    Stalin's Biggest Headache 1950

  • The essays on Stalinism, Khrushchevism, Titoism and Maoism also happen to have little or nothing to do with those subjects.

    Multiple Simultaneous Submissions 2009

  • When it's put like that, who wouldn't want the alternative of an African Titoism, or perhaps an African Gaullism, where presidential rule keeps a guiding but not tyrannical hand?

    At the Desert's Edge Hitchens, Christopher 2007

  • While Tito was alive, criticism of the dictatorship and Titoism was limited in public to vague and indirect complaints from within the republics about a particular policy or local official.

    The J Curve Ian Bremmer 2006

  • The remainder, many of whom distinguished themselves only by their loyalty to Titoism, were out of their depth as economic and political challenges mounted.

    The J Curve Ian Bremmer 2006

  • While Tito was alive, criticism of the dictatorship and Titoism was limited in public to vague and indirect complaints from within the republics about a particular policy or local official.

    The J Curve Ian Bremmer 2006

  • While Tito was alive, criticism of the dictatorship and Titoism was limited in public to vague and indirect complaints from within the republics about a particular policy or local official.

    The J Curve Ian Bremmer 2006

  • The remainder, many of whom distinguished themselves only by their loyalty to Titoism, were out of their depth as economic and political challenges mounted.

    The J Curve Ian Bremmer 2006

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