party-to-party relations
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The principle that relations between communist parties should be conducted on a basis of mutual equality and comradeship, distinct from state-to-state relations, without subordination of one party to another. Articulated by Tito and Kardelj during the 1948 Soviet-Yugoslav split in opposition to the Cominform's hierarchical discipline, it asserted the right of each party to its own path to socialism. The concept later became a theoretical pillar of the Non-Aligned Movement's critique of Soviet hegemony and was formally acknowledged by the Soviet side through the 1955 Belgrade Declaration and the 1956 reestablishment of party-to-party ties.
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- Wikipedia (EN) the 1948 split generated the Yugoslav argument that communist parties should relate as equals rather than through Cominform subordination
- Wikipedia (EN) the 1955 Belgrade Declaration guaranteed noninterference and legitimized different paths of socialist development, foundational to the party-to-party principle
- history.state.gov US State Department intelligence brief (June 1956) confirming that party-to-party relations were reestablished on Tito's terms, including Soviet recognition of equality between the two parties
- yuhistorija.com the 1955 declaration prescribed 'the principle of respect for equality in relations, free exchange of views' as the mode of inter-party relations between the LCY and the CPSU