Abstract: This study is based on sources from the Archives of Yugoslavia (Cabinet of the President of the Republic fund), Pristina and Belgrade newspapers that reported on Tito's visit to Kosovo in 1975, party documents, and relevant scholarly literature. The event is important for understanding the socio-economic and political conditions in Kosovo after the country's constitutional recomposition in 1974. There is a noticeable contrast between the real problems in Kosovo, primarily those of an interethnic and economic nature, and their public treatment by Tito during his visit.

Keywords: Tito, Yugoslavia, Serbia, Kosovo, socialism, Serbs, Albanians

Summary: The visit of the aging president of the SFRY and League of Communists of Yugoslavia Tito to Kosovo in 1975 took place in the aftermath of the country’s constitutional reorganization, culminating in the constitutional provisions of 1974, by which the republics and provinces became largely independent in carrying out their own policies. The joint state was reduced to a loose confederation, and Serbia, although not formally, reduced to a narrower part without provinces. At the same time, the country was in a serious economic crisis. Political and economic problems were more pronounced in Kosovo considering the heritage, multi-ethnic composition of the population and low level of general development. Tito, his wife Jovanka and a group of high-ranking officials from Belgrade visited Kosovo on April 3 and 4. He stayed longer, among other places, in Đeneral Janković, Brezovica, Lipljan and Pristina, where he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the local university Setting aside the ceremonious welcome, the available materials reveal economic problems in Kosovo with certain political implications. The idealized portrayal of interethnic relations presented to Tito during his visit to Kosovo, one with which he fully concurred, does not align with the available historical sources and historiographical research known to us, which observe the post-Brion period, first of all, through the prism of the expansion of Albanian nationalism and separatism. When the subsequent socio-economic and political development of Kosovo is taken into account, it can be concluded that the visit did not affect the improvement of local conditions, but gave an incentive to maintain the existing situation and thus helped Albanian nationalists and separatists.