I.B. Tito and L.I. Brezhnev. The role of personal diplomacy in relations between the USSR and Yugoslavia. (about L.I. Brezhnev's visit to Yugoslavia in 1962).

the article examines the issue of establishing personal contact between two prominent political figures of the twentieth century – Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev and Josip Broz Tito during L.I. Brezhnev's first stay in Yugoslavia from September 24 to October 4, 1962. The factors that contributed to the successful conduct of the visit are analyzed, as well as the influence of personal friendly relations between the leaders of the USSR and the FPRY (SFRY) on the bilateral relations of these countries and the corresponding communist parties. The authors believe that the time spent together by Brezhnev and Tito during the visit, their psychological compatibility later became positive factors helping to solve complex problems arising between the two countries on the basis of mutual respect.

political leaders, society, elite, foreign policy of the USSR, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union