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The term refers to the Cominform Resolution of June 28, 1948 that accused the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY), among other things, of "depart[ing] from Marxism-Leninism," exhibiting an "anti-Soviet attitude," "meeting criticism with hostility" and "reject[ing] to discuss the situation at an Informbureau meeting." Following these allegations, the resolution expelled the CPY from Cominform. As a result, Yugoslavia fell outside of the Soviet Empire.

Significant evidence supports the opinion that the actual reason for the resolution was the unwillingness of Josip Broz Tito to obey the instructions of Joseph Stalin. The most serious disputes concerned policy in the Balkans. In particular, Yugoslavia was considered to be pushing too fast towards unification with Bulgaria and Albania; although following Stalin's proposal for a series of such unifications, Tito was seen to be proceeding without proper consultation with Moscow. Another issue was Tito's eagerness to "export revolution" to Greece.

The Cominform Resolution is seen as a failed attempt by Stalin to command obedience not only from Tito, but from other national Communist parties as well.

Contrasting his brutal repression of other satellites' independent moves (e.g. Hungary), it remains unclear what prevented Stalin from miltary intervention. In his memoirs, Nikita Khrushchev asserted that he was "absolutely sure that if the Soviet Union bordered Yugoslavia Stalin would have intervened militarily."

Khrushchev reconciled with Tito in 1955.

This period was also marked by dissent within the CPY and subsequent repression and deportations of political opponents to concentration campA concentration camp is a large detention centre created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. The term refers to situations where the internes and prisons, notably Goli Otok island.

This period figures prominently in Yugoslavian literature and cinema.

1 Informbiro timeline

• February 1948 - Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav MolotovVyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov ( Russian: ) (vyah-cheh-SLAHF mih-KHY-lo-vihch MOL-uh-tawf) ( February 25, 1890 ( O. March 9, 1890 ( N. November 8, 1986) was a Soviet politician and diplomat. Molotov and Stalin himself were the only senior revolutionary B threatens Tito that "serious differences of opinion about relations between our countries" will result if Tito does not clear his actions with Moscow.
• March 27, 1948 - the Central Committee (CC) of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionFor other usage of the initials CPSU see CPSU (disambiguation). The Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( Russian: was the name used by the successors of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party from 1952 to 1991, but the wordin (CPSU) sends a letter of warning to the Central Committee of the CPY.
• April 12 - 13, 1948 - A CC CPY plenum discusses the CPSU letter.
• May 4, 1948 - The CC CPSU sends a new letter to the CC CPY with additional allegations.
• May 9, 1948 - At a meeting in BelgradeFor other uses see Belgrade (disambiguation Belgrade ( Serbian, Beograd , (population in Belgrade region 1,711,800 by census of 2002) is the capital of Serbia (since 1403) and Serbia and Montenegro (since 2003) and Yugoslavia ( 1918- 2003). The city lies the CC CPY issues its reply to the CKVKP(b) letter.
• May 20, 1948 - The CC CPY issues a statement that the CPY will not send a delegation to the next Cominform meeting.
• June 28, 1948 - Cominform circulates the "Resolution on the situation in the CPY."
• October 25, 1948 - The USSR expels the Yugoslavian ambassador. Other pro-Soviet governments follow suit.
• November 29, 1948 - From the scheduled meeting in BudapestSee Budapest (band) for the british melancholic post-grunge band. Danube in foreground, looking south from Margit Bridge Budapest (pronounced BOO-dah-pesht, X-SAMPA: /budapESt/), the capital city of Hungary and the country's principal political, industria, Cominform issues a new resolution that states in part that "the transformation of Yugoslavia from the phase of bourgeois nationalismNationalism is an ideology that creates and sustains a nation as a concept of a common identity for groups of humans. Nationalists base nations on various notions of political legitimacy. These can derive from the Romantic theory of " cultural identity", into fascism and direct betrayal of national interests is complete."
• September, 1948 - The USSR unilaterally annuls its treaty with Yugoslavia. Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania and Czechoslovakia follow suit.
• 1949 - Goli Otok prison camp is established for the internment of "supporters of the Informbiro."

• June 6, 1953 - Under Khrushchev, the USSR suggests the exchange of ambassadors with Yugoslavia. Hungary, Bulgaria and Albania follow suit.
• 1954 - Poland and Czechoslovakia also restore relations with Yugoslavia.
• June 2, 1955 - Yugoslavia and the USSR sign a joint declaration in Belgrade.

• 1995 - Goli Otok internees from post-Yugoslav republics seek damages.