Austrian historian Silvin Eiletz' book on former Yugoslav communist leader Josip Broz Tito has been published in Croatia. I reveals how Tito really took power.

The book Tito's Mysterious Years in Moscow 1935 – 1940 has been announced by the publisher Metropress as the extremely important for the modern political history of Croatia.

Silvin Eiletz' book has been the first to reveal how Tito really got on power in Yugoslav communist party and how 800 people paid it with their lives.

The book offers documents from those years that tell on Tito's years in Moscow prior to getting on power in Yugoslav communist party. It contains letters that Tito reportedly used to send to the members of Stalin's secret service.

Tito, born just Josip Broz, was the leader of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1945 until his death in 1980. During World War II, Tito organized the anti-fascist resistance movement known as the Yugoslav Partisans.

Later he was a founding member of Cominform, but resisted Soviet influence and became one of the main founders and promoters of the Non-Aligned Movement.

He supported the creation of a Yugoslav nationality and identity as a Pan-Slavic replacement of the existing nationalities in Yugoslavia, and thus through his actions, was considered a Yugoslav.