The Titoites

by Enver Hoxha

"THE TITOITES" is another book in a series of memoirs and historical and political notes of Comrade Enver Hoxha.
Written mainly in the period 1981-82, it comprises the author`s historical notes, reminiscences and detailed analyses of the history of the relations between the Communist Party of Albania and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, as well as between the Albanian state and the Yugoslav state. Most of this book deals with the period from the first direct contacts (1941) to the final breach of the CPA with Tito and the Titoites (1948). An important place is also given to the struggle of of the PLA to uncover and foil the ceaseless anti-Marxist and anti-Albanian activity of the Titoite leadership and its secret agents in the period from 1949 to this day.

This book is published in Albanian and a number of foreign languages. References and foot-notes are of the Institute of the Marxist-Leninist Studies at the Central Commitee of the Party of Labour of Albania, under the auspices of which this book is published.

Genres: Nonfiction

545 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

Enver Halil Hoxha was an Albanian Communist revolutionary, statesman and political theorist who was the leader of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985.

He was the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania from 1941 until his death, a member of its Politburo, chairman of the Democratic Front of Albania, and commander-in-chief of the Albanian People's Army. He was, also, the twenty-second prime minister of Albania from 1944 to 1954 and at various times was both foreign minister and defence minister of the country.

Hoxha was born in Gjirokastër in 1908. He was a grammar school teacher in 1936. After the Italian invasion of Albania, he joined the Party of Labour of Albania at its creation in 1941 in the Soviet Union. He was elected First Secretary in March 1943 at the age of 34. Less than two years after the liberation of the country, the monarchy of King Zog I was formally abolished, and Hoxha became the country's de facto head of state.

Adopting Stalinism, Hoxha converted Albania into a one-party communist state. As a Stalinist, he implemented state atheism and ordered the anti-religious persecution of Muslims and Christians. Implementing his radical program, Hoxha used totalitarian methods of governance. His government outlawed traveling abroad and private proprietorship. The government imprisoned, executed, or exiled thousands of landowners, rural clan leaders, peasants who resisted collectivization, and allegedly disloyal party officials. Hoxha was succeeded by Ramiz Alia, who was in charge during the fall of communism in Albania.

Hoxha's government was characterised by his proclaimed firm adherence to anti-revisionist Marxism–Leninism from the mid/late-1960s onwards. After his break with Maoism in the 1976–1978 period, numerous Maoist parties around the world declared themselves Hoxhaist. The International Conference of Marxist–Leninist Parties and Organisations (Unity & Struggle) is the best-known association of these parties.