Three months after the Sixth Congress, the People's Front becomes the Socialist Alliance of Working People of Yugoslavia (SAWPY), an umbrella organization through which the party will maintain this monopoly.

In addition, individual communists continue to occupy key government and enterprise-management posts.

In 1953, the Federal Assembly amends virtually the entire 1946 constitution to conform to the new laws on workers' self-management.

On the federal level, the amendments create an administrative Federal Executive Council and reorganize the Federal Assembly.

The amendments also reduce the already minimal autonomy of the individual republics, while local government retains power in economic and social matters.

By 1953, Yugoslavia’s ill-starred attempt to enforce the collectivization of agriculture has collapsed; the government begins dissolving collective and state farms in March, and two-thirds of the peasants abandon the collectives within nine months, but the West has smoothed Yugoslavia's course by offering aid and military assistance.

Military aid has evolved into an informal association with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) via a tripartite pact with Greece and Turkey that includes a provision for mutual defense.

However, the Western powers are unable to bring Yugoslavia into NATO.

Liberalization is an uneven, changeable phenomenon in Yugoslavia.

A meeting of party leaders …