Politically it stood — and still stands — apart; Socialist but not Marxist, it was as wary in its relations with Soviet Russia as with the U.S.A. Externally it zealously preserved its image as a revolutionary state, friendly to almost all other revolutionary movements; yet internally its own society, where Islam remains very much the binding cement, was highly conservative. If there is one country to which Boumedienne’s Algeria might most profitably be compared, it was perhaps Tito’s Yugoslavia, just as the F.L.N. at war bore a certain affinity with the Yugoslav partisans of the Second World War.

XREF: Connects to Cold War non-aligned movement history and parallels between post-colonial revolutionary states.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1680