ABSTRACT
The Prague coup of February 1948 appeared to have given Stalin mastery over an eastern Europe which, against the background of the intensifying cold war, was being refashioned on the Soviet model. Yet, as the events of the summer were to show, Stalin already felt his monopoly of power threatened, but threatened from within as much as from without, from the heretic as much as from the infidel. On 28 June 1948 the Yugoslav Communist Party was expelled from Cominform.
