The book analyzes the events of Trieste after the Second World War. Tito and Stalin had set strategies on this territory and carried forward their territorial claims, in an international context that was changing and placed the entire world in front of an ideological division as well as social, territorial and economic.

The recognized political capacity and military strength of Moscow and Belgrade had to confront or clash with equally proven competence present in the Western bloc.

Trieste and Italy find themselves in the middle of this situation, starting from a position of inferiority due to the defeat.

Endogenous and exogenous factors will influence the events and political decisions that will be taken in the national and international context for the Julian question.

The international and Italian situation is taken stock. The figures of the two communist dictators are examined to reach a comparison between the parties. Direct interventions by the protagonists and actors of those historical moments are present, leaving the reader to make considerations and reasonings following what is reported. The Trieste affair is examined with the political interventions of Moscow and Belgrade to reach some conclusions.

Andrea Legovini, Tito, Stalin and the Trieste Question , July, Trieste 2022, 176 pp.