Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
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Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia(1945–1963) Federativna Narodna Republika Jugoslavija(Serbo-CroatianLatin)
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia(1963–1992) Socijalistička Federativna Republika Jugoslavija(Serbo-CroatianLatin)
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| 1945–1992 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Motto:"Brotherhood and unity" Bratstvo i jedinstvo(Serbo-CroatianLatin)
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| Anthem:"Hey, Slavs" Hej, Slaveni[b][c](Serbo-CroatianLatin)
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 Map of Europe in 1989, showing Yugoslavia highlighted in green | |||||||||||||||||||
| Capital and largest city | Belgrade 44°49′12″N20°25′39″E/ 44.82000°N 20.42750°E | ||||||||||||||||||
| Official languages | None at the federal level[a] | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Official script | Cyrillic•Latin | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Religion | Secular state[2][3] State atheism(de facto) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Demonym(s) | Yugoslav Yugoslavian | ||||||||||||||||||
| Government | 1945–1948: FederalMarxist–Leninist one-partyparliamentary socialist republic 1948–1971: FederalTitoistone-partypresidentialsocialist republic 1971–1990: FederalTitoistone-partyparliamentarysocialist directoralrepublic 1990–1992: Federalparliamentary directoralrepublic | ||||||||||||||||||
| General Secretary | |||||||||||||||||||
• 1945–1980 (first) | Josip Broz Tito | ||||||||||||||||||
• 1989–1990 (last) | Milan Pančevski | ||||||||||||||||||
| President | |||||||||||||||||||
• 1945–1953 (first) | Ivan Ribar | ||||||||||||||||||
• 1991 (last) | Stjepan Mesić | ||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | |||||||||||||||||||
• 1945–1963 (first) | Josip Broz Tito | ||||||||||||||||||
• 1989–1991 (last) | Ante Marković | ||||||||||||||||||
| Legislature | Federal Assembly | ||||||||||||||||||
| Chamber of Republics | |||||||||||||||||||
| Federal Chamber | |||||||||||||||||||
| Historical era | Cold War | ||||||||||||||||||
•DF Yugoslaviaformed | 29 November 1943 | ||||||||||||||||||
• FPR Yugoslavia proclaimed | 29 November 1945 | ||||||||||||||||||
•Constitutionadopted | 31 January 1946 | ||||||||||||||||||
| c. 1948 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1 September 1961 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 April 1963 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 February 1974 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 4 May 1980 | |||||||||||||||||||
•Start of theYugoslav Wars | 27 June 1991 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 27 April 1992 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||||||||||
• Total | 255,804 km2(98,766 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||||||||
• 1991 estimate | 23,229,846 | ||||||||||||||||||
| GDP(PPP) | 1989 estimate | ||||||||||||||||||
• Total | $103.04 billion | ||||||||||||||||||
• Per capita | $6,604 | ||||||||||||||||||
| HDI(1990 formula) |  0.913[4]very high | ||||||||||||||||||
| Currency | Yugoslav dinar(YUN)[d] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Time zone | UTC+1(CET) | ||||||||||||||||||
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2(CEST) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Driving side | right | ||||||||||||||||||
| Calling code | +38 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Internet TLD | .yu | ||||||||||||||||||
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TheSocialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia(commonly abbreviated asSFRYorSFR Yugoslavia), commonly referred to asSocialist Yugoslaviaor simplyYugoslavia,was a country inCentralandSoutheast Europe.It was established in 1945 as theFederal People's Republic of Yugoslavia,followingWorld War II,and lasted until 1992,breaking upas a consequence of theYugoslav Wars.Spanning an area of 255,804 square kilometres (98,766 sq mi) in theBalkans,Yugoslavia was bordered by theAdriatic SeaandItalyto the west,AustriaandHungaryto the north,BulgariaandRomaniato the east, andAlbaniaandGreeceto the south. It was aone-partysocialist stateandfederationgoverned by theLeague of Communists of Yugoslavia,and had six constituent republics:Bosnia and Herzegovina,Croatia,Macedonia,Montenegro,Serbia,andSlovenia.Within Serbia was the Yugoslav capital city ofBelgradeas well as two autonomous Yugoslav provinces:KosovoandVojvodina.
The country emerged asDemocratic Federal Yugoslaviaon 29 November 1943, during the second session of theAnti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of YugoslaviamidstWorld War II in Yugoslavia.Recognised by theAllies of World War IIat theTehran Conferenceas the legal successor state toKingdom of Yugoslavia,it was aprovisionally governed stateformed to unite the Yugoslav resistance movement to theoccupation of Yugoslaviaby theAxis powers.Following the country's liberation,King Peter IIwas deposed, themonarchical rulewas ended, and on 29 November 1945, the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia was proclaimed. Led byJosip Broz Tito,the newcommunist governmentsided with theEastern Blocat the beginning of theCold Warbut pursued a policy ofneutralityfollowing the 1948Tito–Stalin split;it became a founding member of theNon-Aligned Movement,and transitioned from acommand economytomarket-based socialism.
After Tito died on 4 May 1980, theYugoslav economybegan to collapse, which increased unemployment and inflation.[9][10]The economic crisis led to risingethnic nationalismand political dissidence in the late 1980s and early 1990s. With thefall of communisminEastern Europe,efforts to transition into aconfederationfailed; the two wealthiest republics, Croatia and Slovenia, seceded and gained some international recognition in 1991. The federation dissolved along the borders of federated republics, hastened by the start of the Yugoslav Wars, and formally broke up on 27 April 1992. Two republics, Serbia and Montenegro, remained within a reconstituted state known as theFederal Republic of Yugoslavia,or FR Yugoslavia, but this state was not recognized internationally as thesole successor state to SFR Yugoslavia."Former Yugoslavia"is now commonly used retrospectively.
Name[edit]
The nameYugoslavia,ananglicisedtranscription ofJugoslavija,is acompound wordmade up ofjug('yug'; with the 'j' pronounced like an English 'y') andslavija.TheSlavicwordjugmeans 'south', whileslavija( "Slavia" ) denotes a 'land of theSlavs'. Thus, a translation ofJugoslavijawould be 'South-Slavia' or 'Land of theSouth Slavs'. The federation's official name varied considerably between 1945 and 1992.[11]Yugoslavia was formed in 1918 under the nameKingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.In January 1929, KingAlexander Iassumed dictatorship of the kingdom and renamed it theKingdom of Yugoslavia,for the first time making "Yugoslavia" —which had been used colloquially for decades (even before the country was formed)—the state's official name.[11]After the Axis occupied the kingdom during World War II, theAnti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia(AVNOJ) announced in 1943 the formation of theDemocratic Federal Yugoslavia(DF Yugoslavia or DFY) in the country's substantial resistance-controlled areas. The name deliberately left therepublic-or-kingdomquestion open. In 1945,King Peter IIwas officially deposed, with the state reorganized as a republic, and accordingly renamed the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (FPR Yugoslavia or FPRY), with the constitution coming into force in 1946.[12]In 1963, amid pervasive liberal constitutional reforms, the nameSocialist Federal Republic of Yugoslaviawas introduced. The state is most commonly called by that name, which it held for the longest period. Of the three main Yugoslav languages, the Serbo-Croatian and Macedonian names for the state were identical, while Slovene slightly differed in capitalization and the spelling of the adjectiveSocialist.The names are as follows:
- Serbo-CroatianandMacedonian
- Latin:Socijalistička Federativna Republika Jugoslavija
- Cyrillic:Социјалистичка Федеративна Република Југославија
- Serbo-Croatian pronunciation:[sot͡sijalǐstit͡ʃkaːfêderatiːʋnaːrepǔblikajuɡǒslaːʋija]
- Macedonian pronunciation:[sɔt͡sijaˈlistit͡ʃkafɛdɛraˈtivnarɛˈpublikajuɡɔˈsɫavija]
- Slovene
- Socialistična federativna republika Jugoslavija
- Slovene pronunciation:[sɔtsijaˈlìːstitʃnafɛdɛraˈtíːwnarɛˈpùːblikajuɡɔˈslàːʋija]
Due to the name's length, abbreviations were often used for the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, though it was most commonly known simply asYugoslavia.The most common abbreviation is SFRY, though "SFR Yugoslavia" was also used in an official capacity, particularly by the media.
History[edit]
World War II[edit]
On 6 April 1941, Yugoslavia wasinvaded by the Axis powersled byNazi Germany;by 17 April 1941, the country was fully occupied and was soon carved up by theAxis.Yugoslav resistance was soon established in two forms, the RoyalYugoslav Army in the Homelandand theCommunistYugoslav Partisans.[13]The Partisan supreme commander wasJosip Broz Tito.Under his command, the movement soon began establishing "liberated territories" that attracted the occupying forces' attention. Unlike the various nationalist militias operating in occupied Yugoslavia, the Partisans were a pan-Yugoslav movement promoting the "brotherhood and unity"of Yugoslav nations and representing the Yugoslav political spectrum's republican, left-wing, and socialist elements. The coalition of political parties, factions, and prominent individuals behind the movement was thePeople's Liberation Front(Jedinstveni narodnooslobodilački front,JNOF), led by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ).
The Front formed a representative political body, theAnti-Fascist Council for the People's Liberation of Yugoslavia(AVNOJ,Antifašističko Veće Narodnog Oslobođenja Jugoslavije).[14]The AVNOJ met for the first time in Partisan-liberatedBihaćon 26 November 1942 (First Session of the AVNOJ) and claimed the status of Yugoslavia'sdeliberative assembly(parliament).[11][14][15]
In 1943, the Yugoslav Partisans began attracting serious attention from the Germans. In two major operations,Fall Weiss(January to April 1943) andFall Schwartz(15 May to 16 June 1943), the Axis attempted to stamp out the Yugoslav resistance once and for all. In theBattle of the Neretvaand theBattle of the Sutjeska,the 20,000-strong Partisan Main Operational Group engaged a force of around 150,000 combined Axis troops.[14]In both battles, despite heavy casualties, the Group evaded the trap and retreated to safety. The Partisans emerged stronger than before, occupying a more significant portion of Yugoslavia. The events greatly increased the Partisans' standing and granted them a favourable reputation among the Yugoslav populace, leading to increased recruitment. On 8 September 1943,Fascist Italy capitulatedto theAllies,leaving their occupation zone in Yugoslavia open to the Partisans. Tito took advantage of this by briefly liberating theDalmatianshore and its cities. This secured Italian weaponry and supplies for the Partisans, volunteers from the cities previously annexed by Italy, and Italian recruits crossing over to the Allies (theGaribaldi Division).[11][15]After this favourable chain of events, the AVNOJ decided to meet for the second time, in Partisan-liberatedJajce.TheSecond Session of the AVNOJlasted from 21 to 29 November 1943 (right before and during theTehran Conference) and came to a number of conclusions. The most significant of these was the establishment of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia, a state that would be afederationof six equal South Slavic republics (as opposed to the allegedlySerbpredominance in pre-war Yugoslavia). The council decided on a "neutral" name and deliberately left the question of "monarchy vs. republic" open, ruling that Peter II would be allowed to return from exile inLondononly upon a favourable result of a pan-Yugoslav referendum on the question.[15]Among other decisions, the AVNOJ formed a provisional executive body, theNational Committee for the Liberation of Yugoslavia(NKOJ,Nacionalni komitet oslobođenja Jugoslavije), appointing Tito as prime minister. Having achieved success in the 1943 engagements, Tito was also granted the rank ofMarshal of Yugoslavia.Favourable news also came from the Tehran Conference when the Allies concluded that the Partisans would be recognized as the Allied Yugoslav resistance movement and granted supplies and wartime support against the Axis occupation.[15]
As the war turned decisively against the Axis in 1944, the Partisans continued to hold significant chunks of Yugoslav territory.[clarification needed]With the Allies in Italy, the Yugoslav islands of theAdriatic Seawere a haven for the resistance. On 17 June 1944, the Partisan base on the island ofVishoused a conference between Prime Minister Tito of theNKOJ(representing the AVNOJ) and Prime MinisterIvan Šubašićof the royalist Yugoslav government-in-exile in London.[16]The conclusions, known as theTito-Šubašić Agreement,granted the king's recognition to the AVNOJ and the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia (DFY) and provided for the establishment of a joint Yugoslav coalition government headed by Tito with Šubašić as the foreign minister, with the AVNOJ confirmed as the provisional Yugoslav parliament.[15]Peter II's government-in-exile in London, partly due to pressure from the United Kingdom,[17]recognized the state in the agreement, signed by Šubašić and Tito on 17 June 1944.[17]The DFY's legislature, after November 1944, was the Provisional Assembly.[18]The Tito-Šubašić agreement of 1944 declared that the state was a pluralist democracy that guaranteed democratic liberties; personal freedom;freedom of speech,assembly,andreligion;and afree press.[19]But by January 1945, Tito had shifted his government's emphasis away from pluralist democracy, claiming that though he accepted democracy, multiple parties were unnecessarily divisive amid Yugoslavia's war effort, and that thePeople's Frontrepresented all the Yugoslav people.[19]The People's Front coalition, headed by the KPJ and its general secretary Tito, was a major movement within the government. Other political movements that joined the government included the "Napred" movement represented by Milivoje Marković.[18]Belgrade,Yugoslavia's capital, wasliberatedwith the SovietRed Army's help in October 1944, and the formation of a new Yugoslav government was postponed until 2 November 1944, when the Belgrade Agreement was signed. The agreements also provided for postwar elections to determine the state's future system of government and economy.[15]
By 1945, the Partisans were clearing out Axis forces and liberating the remaining parts of occupied territory. On 20 March, the Partisans launched their General Offensive in a drive to completely oust the Germans and the remaining collaborating forces.[14]By the end of April, the remaining northern parts of Yugoslavia were liberated, and Yugoslav troops occupied chunks of southern German (Austrian) territory and Italian territory around Trieste. Yugoslavia was now once more a fully intact state, with its borders closely resembling their pre-1941 form, and was envisioned by the Partisans as a "Democratic Federation", including sixfederated states:theFederated State of Bosnia and Herzegovina(FS Bosnia and Herzegovina),Federated State of Croatia(FS Croatia),Federated State of Macedonia(FS Macedonia),Federated State of Montenegro(FS Montenegro),Federated State of Serbia(FS Serbia), andFederated State of Slovenia(FS Slovenia).[15][20]But the nature of its government remained unclear, and Tito was reluctant to include the exiled King Peter II in post-war Yugoslavia, asWinston Churchilldemanded. In February 1945, Tito acknowledged the existence of aRegencyCouncil representing the king, but the council's first and only act was to proclaim a new government under Tito's premiership.[21]The nature of the state was still unclear immediately after the war, and on 26 June 1945, the government signed theUnited Nations Charterusing onlyYugoslaviaas an official name, with no reference to either a kingdom or a republic.[22][23]Acting as head of state on 7 March, the king appointed to his Regency Council constitutional lawyers Srđan Budisavljević,Ante Mandić,and Dušan Sernec. In doing so, he empowered his council to form a commontemporary governmentwith NKOJ and accept Tito's nomination as prime minister of the first normal government. The Regency Council thus accepted Tito's nomination on 29 November 1945 when FPRY was declared. By this unconditional transfer of power, King Peter IIabdicatedto Tito.[24]This date, when the second Yugoslavia was born under international law, was thereafter marked as Yugoslavia's national holidayDay of the Republic,but after the Communists' switch toauthoritarianism,this holiday officially marked the 1943 Session of AVNOJ that coincidentally[clarification needed][citation needed]fell on the same date.[25]
Postwar period[edit]
The first Yugoslav post-World War II elections were set for11 November 1945.By that time, the coalition of parties backing the Partisans, the People's Liberation Front (Jedinstveni narodnooslobodilački front,JNOF), had been renamed the People's Front (Narodni front,NOF). The People's Front was primarily led by the KPJ and represented by Tito. The reputation of both benefited greatly from their wartime exploits and decisive success, and they enjoyed genuine support among the populace. But the old pre-war political parties were also reestablished.[20]As early as January 1945, while the enemy was still occupying the northwest, Tito commented:
I am not in principle against political parties because democracy also presupposes the freedom to express one's principles and one's ideas. But to create parties for the sake of parties, now, when all of us, as one, must direct all our strength in the direction of driving the occupying forces from our country, when the homeland has been razed to the ground when we have nothing but our awareness and our hands... we have no time for that now. And here is a popular movement [the People's Front]. Everyone is welcome within it, both communists and those who were Democrats and radicals, etc., whatever they were called before. This movement is the force, the only force which can now lead our country out of this horror and misery and bring it to complete freedom.
— Prime Minister Josip Broz Tito, January 1945[20]
While the elections themselves were fairly conducted by a secret ballot, the campaign that preceded them was highly irregular.[15]Opposition newspapers were banned on more than one occasion, and in Serbia, opposition leaders such asMilan Grolreceived threats via the press. The opposition withdrew from the election in protest of the hostile atmosphere, which caused the three royalist representatives, Grol, Šubašić, andJuraj Šutej,to secede from the provisional government. Indeed, voting was on a single list of People's Front candidates with provision for opposition votes to be cast in separate voting boxes, a procedure that made electors identifiable byOZNAagents.[26][27]The election results of 11 November 1945 were decisively in favour of the People's Front, which received an average of 85% of the vote in eachfederated state.[15]On 29 November, the second anniversary of the Second Session of the AVNOJ, the Constituent Assembly of Yugoslavia formally abolished the monarchy and declared the state a republic. The country's official name became the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (FPR Yugoslavia, FPRY), and the six federated states became "People's Republics".[20][28]Yugoslavia became aone-party stateand was considered in its earliest years a model of Communist orthodoxy.[29]
The Yugoslav government allied with theSoviet Unionunder Stalin and early in theCold Warshot down two American airplanes flying in Yugoslav airspace, on 9 and 19 August 1946. These were the first aerial shootdowns of western aircraft during the Cold War and caused deep distrust of Tito in the United States and even calls for military intervention against Yugoslavia.[30]The new Yugoslavia also closely followed theStalinistSoviet modelofeconomic developmentin this period, some aspects of which achieved considerable success. In particular, the public works of the period organized by the government rebuilt and even improved Yugoslav infrastructure (in particular the road system) with little cost to the state. Tensions with the West were high as Yugoslavia joined theCominform,and the early phase of the Cold War began with Yugoslavia pursuing an aggressive foreign policy.[15]Having liberated most of theJulian MarchandCarinthia,and with historic claims to both those regions, the Yugoslav government began diplomatic maneuvering to include them in Yugoslavia. The West opposed both these demands. The greatest point of contention was the port city ofTrieste.The city and its hinterland were liberated mostly by the Partisans in 1945, but pressure from the western Allies forced them to withdraw to the so-called "Morgan Line".TheFree Territory of Triestewas established and separated into Zones A and B, administered by the western Allies and Yugoslavia, respectively. Yugoslavia was initially backed by Stalin, but by 1947 he had begun to cool toward its ambitions. The crisis eventually dissolved as theTito–Stalin splitstarted, with Zone A granted to Italy and Zone B to Yugoslavia.[15][20]
Meanwhile,civil warraged in Greece – Yugoslavia's southern neighbour – between Communists and the right-wing government, and the Yugoslav government was determined to bring about a Communist victory.[15][20]Yugoslavia dispatched significant assistance—arms and ammunition, supplies, and military experts onpartisan warfare(such as GeneralVladimir Dapčević)—and even allowed theGreek Communist forcesto use Yugoslav territory as a safe haven. Although the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, and (Yugoslav-dominated) Albania had also granted military support, Yugoslav assistance was far more substantial. But this Yugoslav foreign adventure also came to an end with the Tito–Stalin split, as the Greek Communists, expecting Tito's overthrow, refused any assistance from his government. Without it, they were greatly disadvantaged, and were defeated in 1949.[20]As Yugoslavia was the country's only Communist neighbour in the immediate postwar period, thePeople's Republic of Albaniawas effectively a Yugoslav satellite. Neighboring Bulgaria was under increasing Yugoslav influence as well, and talks began to negotiate the political unification of Albania and Bulgaria with Yugoslavia. The major point of contention was that Yugoslavia wanted to absorb the two and transform them into additionalfederated republics.Albania was in no position to object, but the Bulgarian view was that a newBalkan Federationwould see Bulgaria and Yugoslavia as a whole uniting on equal terms. As these negotiations began, Yugoslav representativesEdvard KardeljandMilovan Đilaswere summoned to Moscow alongside a Bulgarian delegation, where Stalin andVyacheslav Molotovattempted to browbeat them into accepting Soviet control over the merger between the countries, and generally tried to force them into subordination.[20]The Soviets did not express a specific view on Yugoslav-Bulgarian unification but wanted to ensure Moscow approved every decision by both parties. The Bulgarians did not object, but the Yugoslav delegation withdrew from the Moscow meeting. Recognizing the level of Bulgarian subordination toMoscow,Yugoslavia withdrew from the unification talks and shelved plans for the annexation of Albania in anticipation of a confrontation with the Soviet Union.[20]
From the beginning, the foreign policy of the Yugoslav government under Tito assigned high importance to developing strong diplomatic relations with other nations, including those outside the Balkans and Europe. Yugoslavia quickly established formal relations withIndia,Burma,andIndonesiafollowing their independence from the British and Dutch colonial empires. Official relations between Yugoslavia and theRepublic of Chinawere established with the Soviet Union's permission. Simultaneously, Yugoslavia maintained close contacts with the Chinese Communist Party and supported its cause in theChinese Civil War.[31]
Informbiro period[edit]
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The Tito–Stalin, or Yugoslav–Soviet split, took place in the spring and early summer of 1948. Its title pertains to Tito, at the time theYugoslav Prime Minister(President of the Federal Assembly), and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. In the West, Tito was thought of as a loyal Communist leader, second only to Stalin in the Eastern Bloc. However, having largely liberated itself with only limited Red Army support,[14]Yugoslavia steered an independent course and was constantly experiencing tensions with the Soviet Union. Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav government considered themselves allies of Moscow, while Moscow considered Yugoslavia a satellite and often treated it as such. Previous tensions erupted over a number of issues, but after the Moscow meeting, an open confrontation was beginning.[20]Next came an exchange of letters directly between theCommunist Party of the Soviet Union(CPSU), and the KPJ. In the first CPSU letter of 27 March 1948, the Soviets accused the Yugoslavs of denigrating Soviet socialism via statements such as "socialism in the Soviet Union has ceased to be revolutionary". It also claimed that the KPJ was not "democratic enough", and that it was not acting as a vanguard that would lead the country to socialism. The Soviets said that they "could not consider such a Communist party organization to be Marxist-Leninist, Bolshevik". The letter also named a number of high-ranking officials as "dubious Marxists" (Milovan Đilas,Aleksandar Ranković,Boris Kidrič,andSvetozar Vukmanović-Tempo) inviting Tito to purge them, and thus cause a rift in his own party. Communist officialsAndrija HebrangandSreten Žujovićsupported the Soviet view.[15][20]Tito, however, saw through it, refused to compromise his own party, and soon responded with his own letter. The KPJ response on 13 April 1948 was a strong denial of the Soviet accusations, both defending the revolutionary nature of the party and re-asserting its high opinion of the Soviet Union. However, the KPJ noted also that "no matter how much each of us loves the land of socialism, the Soviet Union, he can in no case love his own country less".[20]In a speech, the Yugoslav Prime Minister stated:
We are not going to pay the balance on others' accounts, we are not going to serve as pocket money in anyone's currency exchange, we are not going to allow ourselves to become entangled in political spheres of interest. Why should it be held against our peoples that they want to be completely independent? And why should autonomy be restricted, or the subject of dispute? We will not be dependent on anyone ever again!
— Prime Minister Josip Broz Tito[20]
The 31-page-long Soviet answer of 4 May 1948 admonished the KPJ for failing to admit and correct its mistakes, and went on to accuse it of being too proud of their successes against the Germans, maintaining that the Red Army had "saved them from destruction" (an implausible statement, as Tito's partisans had successfully campaigned against Axis forces for four years before the appearance of the Red Army there).[14][20]This time, the Soviets named Tito and Edvard Kardelj as the principal "heretics", while defending Hebrang and Žujović. The letter suggested that the Yugoslavs bring their "case" before the Cominform. The KPJ responded by expelling Hebrang and Žujović from the party, and by answering the Soviets on 17 May 1948 with a letter which sharply criticized Soviet attempts to devalue the successes of the Yugoslav resistance movement.[20]On 19 May 1948, a correspondence byMikhail A. Suslovinformed Tito that the Cominform (InformbiroinSerbo-Croatian), would be holding a session on 28 June 1948 inBucharestalmost completely dedicated to the "Yugoslav issue". The Cominform was an association of Communist parties that was the primary Soviet tool for controlling the political developments in the Eastern Bloc. The date of the meeting, 28 June, was carefully chosen by the Soviets as the triple anniversary of theBattle of Kosovo Field(1389), theassassination of Archduke FerdinandinSarajevo(1914), and the adoption of theVidovdan Constitution(1921).[20]Tito, personally invited, refused to attend under a dubious excuse of illness. When an official invitation arrived on 19 June 1948, Tito again refused. On the first day of the meeting, 28 June, the Cominform adopted the prepared text of a resolution, known in Yugoslavia as the "Resolution of the Informbiro" (Rezolucija Informbiroa). In it, the other Cominform (Informbiro) members expelled Yugoslavia, citing "nationalist elements" that had "managed in the course of the past five or six months to reach a dominant position in the leadership" of the KPJ. The resolution warned Yugoslavia that it was on the path back to bourgeois capitalism due to its nationalist, independence-minded positions, and accused the party itself of "Trotskyism".[20]This was followed by the severing of relations between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union, beginning the period of Soviet–Yugoslav conflict between 1948 and 1955 known as theInformbiro Period.[20]After the break with the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia found itself economically and politically isolated as the country's Eastern Bloc-oriented economy began to falter. At the same time, Stalinist Yugoslavs, known in Yugoslavia as "cominformists", began fomenting civil and military unrest. A number of cominformist rebellions and military insurrections took place, along with acts of sabotage. However, theYugoslav security service(UDBA) led by Aleksandar Ranković, was quick and efficient in cracking down on insurgent activity. Invasion appeared imminent, as Soviet military units massed along the border with theHungarian People's Republic,while theHungarian People's Armywas quickly increased in size from 2 to 15 divisions. The UDBA began arresting alleged Cominformists even under suspicion of being pro-Soviet. However, from the start of the crisis, Tito began making overtures to theUnited Statesand the West. Consequently, Stalin's plans were thwarted as Yugoslavia began shifting its alignment. The West welcomed the Yugoslav-Soviet rift and, in 1949 commenced a flow of economic aid, assisted in averting famine in 1950, and covered much of Yugoslavia'strade deficitfor the next decade. The United States began shipping weapons to Yugoslavia in 1951. Tito, however, was wary of becoming too dependent on the West as well, and military security arrangements concluded in 1953 as Yugoslavia refused to joinNATOand began developing a significant military industry of its own.[32][33]With the American response in theKorean Warserving as an example of the West's commitment, Stalin began backing down from war with Yugoslavia.
Reform[edit]
Yugoslavia began a number of fundamental reforms in the early 1950s, bringing about change in three major directions: rapidliberalizationanddecentralizationof the country's political system, the institution of a new, unique economic system, and a diplomatic policy of non-alignment. Yugoslavia refused to take part in the CommunistWarsaw Pactand instead took a neutral stance in the Cold War, becoming a founding member of theNon-Aligned Movementalong with countries like India, Egypt and Indonesia, and pursuing centre-left influences that promoted a non-confrontational policy towards the United States. The country distanced itself from the Soviets in 1948 and started to build its own way to socialism under the strong political leadership of Tito, sometimes informally called "Titoism".The economic reforms began with the introduction ofworkers' self-managementin June 1950. In this system, profits were shared among the workers themselves asworkers' councilscontrolled production and the profits. An industrial sector began to emerge thanks to the government's implementation of industrial and infrastructure development programs.[15][20]Exports of industrial products, led byheavy machinery,transportation machines (especially in the shipbuilding industry), andmilitary technology and equipmentrose by a yearly increase of 11%. All in all, the annual growth of the gross domestic product (GDP) through to the early 1980s averaged 6.1%.[15][20]Political liberalization began with the reduction of the massive state (and party) bureaucratic apparatus, a process described as the "whittling down of the state" by Boris Kidrič, President of the Yugoslav Economic Council (economics minister). On 2 November 1952, the Sixth Congress of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia introduced the "Basic Law", which emphasized the "personal freedom and rights of man" and the freedom of "free associations of working people". The Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) changed its name at this time to the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (LCY/SKJ), becoming a federation of six republican Communist parties. The result was a regime that was somewhat more humane than other Communist states. However, the LCY retained absolute power; as in all Communist regimes, the legislature did little more than rubber-stamp decisions already made by the LCY's Politburo. The UDBA, while operating with considerably more restraint than its counterparts in the rest ofEastern Europe,was nonetheless a feared tool of government control. UDBA was particularly notorious for assassinating suspected "enemies of the state" who lived in exile overseas.[34][unreliable source?]The media remained under restrictions that were somewhat onerous by Western standards, but still had somewhat more latitude than their counterparts in other Communist countries. Nationalist groups were a particular target of the authorities, with numerous arrests and prison sentences handed down over the years for separatist activities.[citation needed]Dissent from a radical faction within the party led by Milovan Đilas, advocating the near-complete annihilation of the state apparatus, was at this time put down by Tito's intervention.[15][20]In the early 1960s concern over problems such as the building of economically irrational "political" factories and inflation led a group within the Communist leadership to advocate greater decentralization.[35]These liberals were opposed by a group around Aleksandar Ranković.[36]In 1966 the liberals (the most important being Edvard Kardelj,Vladimir Bakarićof Croatia andPetar Stambolićof Serbia) gained the support of Tito. At a party meeting inBrijuni,Ranković faced a fully prepared dossier of accusations and a denunciation from Tito that he had formed a clique with the intention of taking power. That year (1966), more than 3,700 Yugoslavs fled to Trieste[37]with the intention to seek political asylum inNorth America,United KingdomorAustralia.Ranković was forced to resign all party posts and some of his supporters were expelled from the party.[38]Throughout the 1950s and '60s, the economic development and liberalization continued at a rapid pace.[15][20]The introduction of further reforms introduced a variant ofmarket socialism,which now entailed a policy of open borders. With heavy federal investment, tourism inSR Croatiawas revived, expanded, and transformed into a major source of income. With these successful measures, the Yugoslav economy achieved relative self-sufficiency and traded extensively with both the West and the East. By the early 1960s, foreign observers noted that the country was "booming", and that all the while the Yugoslav citizens enjoyed far greater liberties than the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc states.[39]Literacy was increased dramatically and reached 91%, medical care was free on all levels, and life expectancy was 72 years.[15][20][40]On 2 June 1968,student demonstrationsled to wider mass youth protests in capital cities across Yugoslavia. They were gradually stopped a week later by Tito on 9 June during his televised speech.
In 1971 the leadership of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, notablyMiko TripaloandSavka Dabčević-Kučar,allied with nationalist non-party groups, began a movement to increase the powers of the individual federated republics. The movement was referred to as MASPOK, aportmanteauofmasovni pokretmeaningmass movement,and led to theCroatian Spring.[41]Tito responded to the incident by purging the Croatian Communist party, while Yugoslav authorities arrested large numbers of the Croatian protesters. To avert ethnically driven protests in the future, Tito began to initiate some of the reforms demanded by the protesters.[42]At this time,Ustaše-sympathizers outside Yugoslavia tried through terrorism and guerrilla actions to create a separatist momentum,[43]but they were unsuccessful, sometimes even gaining the animosity of fellow Roman Catholic Croatian Yugoslavs.[44]From 1971 on, the republics had control over their economic plans. This led to a wave of investment, which in turn was accompanied by a growing level of debt and a growing trend of imports not covered by exports.[45]Many of the demands made in the Croatian Spring movement in 1971, such as giving more autonomy to the individual republics, became reality with the new federal constitution 1974. While the constitution gave the republics more autonomy, it also awarded a similar status to two autonomous provinces within Serbia:Kosovo,a largely ethnicAlbanianpopulated region, andVojvodina,a region with Serb majority but large numbers of ethnic minorities, such asHungarians.These reforms satisfied most of the republics, especially Croatia and the Albanians of Kosovo and the minorities of Vojvodina. But the 1974 constitution deeply aggravated Serbian Communist officials and Serbs themselves who distrusted the motives of the proponents of the reforms. Many Serbs saw the reforms as concessions to Croatian and Albanian nationalists, as no similar autonomous provinces were made to represent the large numbers of Serbs ofCroatiaorBosnia and Herzegovina.Serb nationalists were frustrated over Tito's support for the recognition ofMontenegrinsandMacedoniansas independent nationalities, as Serbian nationalists had claimed that there was no ethnic or cultural difference separating these two nations from the Serbs that could verify that such nationalities truly existed. Tito maintained a busy, active travelling schedule despite his advancing age. His 85th birthday in May 1977 was marked by huge celebrations. That year, he visitedLibya,the Soviet Union,North Koreaand finally China, where the post-Mao leadership finally made peace with him after more than 20 years of denouncing the SFRY as "revisionists in the pay of capitalism". This was followed by a tour of France, Portugal, andAlgeriaafter which the president's doctors advised him to rest. In August 1978, Chinese leaderHua Guofengvisited Belgrade, reciprocating Tito's China trip the year before. This event was sharply criticized in the Soviet press, especially as Tito used it as an excuse to indirectly attack Moscow's allyCubafor "promoting divisiveness in the Non-Aligned Movement". When Chinalaunched a military campaign against Vietnamthe following February, Yugoslavia openly took Beijing's side in the dispute. The effect was a rather adverse decline inSoviet Union-Yugoslavia relations.During this time, Yugoslavia's firstnuclear reactorwas under construction inKrško,built by US-basedWestinghouse.The project ultimately took until 1980 to complete because of disputes with the United States about certain guarantees that Belgrade had to sign off on before it could receive nuclear materials (which included the promise that they would not be sold to third parties or used for anything but peaceful purposes).
In 1979, seven selection criteria comprisingOhrid,Dubrovnik,Split,Plitvice Lakes National Park,Kotor,Stari RasandSopoćaniwere designated asUNESCO World Heritage Sites,making it the first inscription of cultural and natural landmarks in Yugoslavia.
Post-Tito period[edit]
Tito died on 4 May 1980 due to complications after surgery. While it had been known for some time that the 87-year-old president's health had been failing, his death nonetheless came as a shock to the country. This was because Tito was looked upon as the country's hero in World War II and had been the country's dominant figure and identity for over three decades. His loss marked a significant alteration, and it was reported that many Yugoslavs openly mourned his death. In the Split soccer stadium, Serbs and Croats visited the coffin among other spontaneous outpourings of grief, and a funeral was organized by the League of Communists with hundreds of world leaders in attendance (SeeTito's state funeral).[46]After Tito's death in 1980, a newcollective presidencyof the Communist leadership from each republic was adopted. At the time of Tito's death the Federal government was headed byVeselin Đuranović(who had held the post since 1977). He had come into conflict with the leaders of the Republics arguing that Yugoslavia needed to economize due to the growing problem of foreign debt. Đuranović argued that a devaluation was needed which Tito refused to countenance for reasons of national prestige.[47]Post-Tito Yugoslavia faced significant fiscal debt in the 1980s, but its good relations with the United States led to an American-led group of organizations called the "Friends of Yugoslavia" to endorse and achieve significant debt relief for Yugoslavia in 1983 and 1984, though economic problems would continue until the state's dissolution in the 1990s.[48]Yugoslavia was the host nation of the1984 Winter Olympicsin Sarajevo. For Yugoslavia, the games demonstrated Tito's continued vision ofBrotherhood and Unity,as the multiple nationalities of Yugoslavia remained united in one team, and Yugoslavia became the second Communist state to hold the Olympic Games (the Soviet Union held them in1980). However, Yugoslavia's games had Western countries participating, while the Soviet Union's Olympics were boycotted by some. In the late 1980s, the Yugoslav government began to deviate from communism as it attempted to transform to amarket economyunder the leadership of Prime MinisterAnte Marković,who advocatedshock therapytactics to privatize sections of the Yugoslav economy. Marković was popular, as he was seen as the most capable politician to be able to transform the country to a liberalized democratic federation, though he later lost his popularity, mainly due to rising unemployment. His work was left incomplete as Yugoslavia broke apart in the 1990s.
Dissolution and war[edit]
Tensions between the republics and nations of Yugoslavia intensified from the 1970s to the 1980s. The causes for the collapse of the country have been associated with nationalism, ethnic conflict, economic difficulty, frustration with government bureaucracy, the influence of important figures in the country, and international politics. Ideology, and particularly nationalism, has been seen by many as the primary source of the break up of Yugoslavia.[49]Since the 1970s, Yugoslavia's Communist regime became severely splintered into a liberal-decentralist nationalist faction led by Croatia and Slovenia that supported a decentralized federation with greater local autonomy, versus a conservative-centralist nationalist faction led by Serbia that supported a centralized federation to secure the interests of Serbia and Serbs across Yugoslavia – as they were the largest ethnic group in the country as a whole.[50]From 1967 to 1972 in Croatia and1968and1981 protests in Kosovo,nationalist doctrines and actions caused ethnic tensions that destabilized the country.[49]The suppression of nationalists by the state is believed to have had the effect of identifying nationalism as the primary alternative to communism itself and made it a strong underground movement.[51]In the late 1980s, the Belgrade elite was faced with a strong opposition force of massive protests by Kosovo Serbs and Montenegrins as well as public demands for political reforms by the critical intelligentsia of Serbia and Slovenia.[51]In economics, since the late 1970s a widening gap of economic resources between the developed and underdeveloped regions of Yugoslavia severely deteriorated the federation's unity.[52]The most developed republics, Croatia and Slovenia, rejected attempts to limit their autonomy as provided in the 1974 Constitution.[52]Public opinion in Slovenia in 1987 saw better economic opportunity in independence from Yugoslavia than within it.[52]There were also places that saw no economic benefit from being in Yugoslavia; for example, the autonomous province of Kosovo was poorly developed, and per capita GDP fell from 47 percent of the Yugoslav average in the immediate post-war period to 27 percent by the 1980s.[53]
However, economic issues have not been demonstrated to be the sole determining factor in the break up, as Yugoslavia in this period was the most prosperous Communist state in Eastern Europe, and the country in fact disintegrated during a period of economic recovery after the implementation of the economic reforms of Ante Marković's government.[54]Furthermore, during the break up of Yugoslavia, the leaders of Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, all declined an unofficial offer by theEuropean Communityto provide substantial economic support to them in exchange for a political compromise.[54]However, the issue of economic inequality between the republics, autonomous provinces, and nations of Yugoslavia resulted in tensions with claims of disadvantage and accusations of privileges against others by these groups.[54]Political protests in Serbia and Slovenia, which later developed into ethnic-driven conflict, began in the late 1980s as protests against the alleged injustice and bureaucratization of the political elite.[55]Members of the political elite managed to redirect these protests against "others".[54]Serb demonstrators were worried about the disintegration of the country and alleged that "the others" (Croats, Slovenes, and international institutions) were deemed responsible.[55]The Slovene intellectual elite argued that "the others" (Serbs) were responsible for "Greater Serbian expansionist designs", for economic exploitation of Slovenia, and for the suppression of Slovene national identity.[55]These redirection actions of the popular protests allowed the authorities of Serbia and Slovenia to survive at the cost of undermining the unity of Yugoslavia.[55]Other republics such as Bosnia & Herzegovina and Croatia refused to follow these tactics taken by Serbia and Slovenia, later resulting in the defeat of the respective League of Communists of each republic to nationalist political forces.[55]From the point of view of international politics, it has been argued that the end of the Cold War contributed to the break up of Yugoslavia because Yugoslavia lost its strategic international political importance as an intermediary between the Eastern and Western blocs.[56]As a consequence, Yugoslavia lost the economic and political support provided by the West, and increased pressure from theInternational Monetary Fund(IMF) to reform its institutions made it impossible for the Yugoslav reformist elite to respond to rising social disorder.[56]
Thecollapse of communismthroughout Eastern Europe in 1989 and thedissolution of the Soviet Unionin 1991 undermined the country's ideological basis and encouraged anti-communist and nationalist forces in the Western-oriented republics of Croatia and Slovenia to increase their demands.[56]Nationalist sentiment among ethnic Serbs rose dramatically following the ratification of the 1974 Constitution, which reduced the powers ofSR Serbiaover its autonomous provinces ofSAP KosovoandSAP Vojvodina.In Serbia, this caused increasing xenophobia against Albanians. In Kosovo (administered mostly by ethnic Albanian Communists), the Serbian minority increasingly put forth complaints of mistreatment and abuse by the Albanian majority. Feelings were further inflamed in 1986, when the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) published theSANU Memorandum.[57]In it, Serbian writers and historians voiced "various currents of Serb nationalist resentment."[58]The SKJ was at the time united in condemning the memorandum, and continued to follow its anti-nationalist policy.[11]In 1987, Serbian Communist officialSlobodan Miloševićwas sent to bring calm to an ethnically driven protest by Serbs against the Albanian administration of SAP Kosovo. Milošević had been, up to this point, a hard-line Communist who had decried all forms of nationalism as treachery, such as condemning the SANU Memorandum as "nothing else but the darkest nationalism".[59]However, Kosovo's autonomy had always been an unpopular policy in Serbia, and he took advantage of the situation and made a departure from traditional Communist neutrality on the issue of Kosovo. Milošević assured Serbs that their mistreatment by ethnic Albanians would be stopped.[60][61][62][63]He then began a campaign against the ruling Communist elite of SR Serbia, demanding reductions in the autonomy of Kosovo and Vojvodina. These actions made him popular amongst Serbs and aided his rise to power in Serbia. Milošević and his allies took on an aggressive nationalist agenda of reviving SR Serbia within Yugoslavia, promising reforms and protection of all Serbs. Milošević proceeded to take control of the governments of Vojvodina, Kosovo, and the neighboringSocialist Republic of Montenegroin what was dubbed the "Anti-Bureaucratic Revolution"by the Serbian media. Both the SAPs possessed a vote on the Yugoslav Presidency in accordance to the 1974 constitution, and together with Montenegro and his own Serbia, Milošević now directly controlled four out of eight votes in the collective head-of-state by January 1990. This only caused further resentment among the governments of Croatia and Slovenia, along with the ethnic Albanians of Kosovo (SR Bosnia and HerzegovinaandSR Macedoniaremained relatively neutral).[11]
Fed up by Milošević's manipulation of the assembly, first the delegations of theLeague Communists of Slovenialed by Milan Kučan, and later theLeague of Communists of Croatia,led byIvica Račan,walked out during the extraordinary14th Congress of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia(January 1990), effectively dissolving the all-Yugoslav party. Along with external pressure, this caused the adoption of multi-party systems in all of the republics. When the individual republics organized their multi-party elections in 1990, the ex-Communists mostly failed to win re-election. In Croatia and Slovenia, nationalist parties won their respective elections. On 8 April 1990 the first multiparty elections in Slovenia (and Yugoslavia) since the Second World War were held. Demos coalition won the elections and formed a government which started to implement electoral reform programs. In Croatia, theCroatian Democratic Union(HDZ) won the election promising to "defend Croatia from Milošević" which caused alarm among Croatia's large Serbian minority.[11]Croatian Serbs, for their part, were wary of HDZ leaderFranjo Tuđman's nationalist government and in 1990, Serb nationalists in the southern Croatian town ofKninorganized and formed a separatist entity known as theSAO Krajina,which demanded to remain in union with the rest of the Serb populations if Croatia decided to secede. The government of Serbia endorsed the Croatian Serbs' rebellion, claiming that for Serbs, rule under Tuđman's government would be equivalent to the World War II fascistIndependent State of Croatia(NDH) which committed genocide against Serbs during World War II. Milošević used this to rally Serbs against the Croatian government and Serbian newspapers joined in the warmongering.[64]Serbia had by now printed $1.8 billion worth of new money without any backing of the Yugoslav central bank.[65]In the Slovenian independence referendum, held on 23 December 1990, a vast majority of residents voted for independence. 88.5% of all electors (94.8% of those participating) voted for independence – which was declared on 25 June 1991.[66]
Both Slovenia and Croatia declared their independence on 25 June 1991. On the morning of 26 June, units of the Yugoslav People's Army's 13th Corps left their barracks in Rijeka, Croatia, to move towards Slovenia's borders with Italy. The move immediately led to a strong reaction from local Slovenians, who organized spontaneous barricades and demonstrations against the YPA's actions. There was, as yet, no fighting, and both sides appeared to have an unofficial policy of not being the first to open fire. By this time, the Slovenian government had already put into action its plan to seize control of both the international Ljubljana Airport and the Slovenia's border posts on borders with Italy, Austria and Hungary. The personnel manning the border posts were, in most cases, already Slovenians, so the Slovenian take-over mostly simply amounted to changing of uniforms and insignia, without any fighting. By taking control of the borders, the Slovenians were able to establish defensive positions against an expected YPA attack. This meant that the YPA would have to fire the first shot. It was fired on 27 June at 14:30 in Divača by an officer of YPA. The conflict spread into theTen-Day War,with many soldiers wounded and killed, in which the YPA was ineffective. Many unmotivated soldiers of Slovenian, Croatian, Bosnian or Macedonian nationality deserted or quietly rebelled against some (Serbian) officers who wanted to intensify the conflict. It also marked the end of the YPA, which was until then composed by members of all Yugoslav nations. After that, the YPA consisted mainly of men of Serbian nationality.[67]
On 7 July 1991, whilst supportive of their respective rights to national self-determination, the European Community pressured Slovenia and Croatia to place a three-month moratorium on their independence with theBrijuni Agreement(recognized by representatives of all republics).[68]During these three months, the Yugoslav Army completed its pull-out from Slovenia. Negotiations to restore the Yugoslav federation with diplomat LordPeter Caringtonand members of the European Community were all but ended. Carington's plan realized that Yugoslavia was in a state of dissolution and decided that each republic must accept the inevitable independence of the others, along with a promise to Serbian President Milošević that the European Union would ensure that Serbs outside of Serbia would be protected. Milošević refused to agree to the plan, as he claimed that the European Community had no right to dissolve Yugoslavia and that the plan was not in the interests of Serbs as it would divide the Serb people into four republics (Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Croatia). Carington responded by putting the issue to a vote in which all the other republics, including Montenegro underMomir Bulatović,initially agreed to the plan that would dissolve Yugoslavia. However, after intense pressure from Serbia on Montenegro's president, Montenegro changed its position to oppose the dissolution of Yugoslavia. With thePlitvice Lakes incidentof late March/early April 1991, theCroatian War of Independencebroke out between the Croatian government and the rebel ethnic Serbs of the SAO Krajina (heavily backed by the by-now Serb-controlled Yugoslav People's Army). On 1 April 1991, the SAO Krajina declared that it would secede from Croatia. Immediately after Croatia's declaration of independence, Croatian Serbs also formed theSAO Western Slavoniaand theSAO Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia.These three regions would combine into the Republic of Serbian Krajina (RSK) on 19 December 1991. The influence ofxenophobiaand ethnic hatred in the collapse of Yugoslavia became clear during the war in Croatia. Propaganda by Croatian and Serbian sides spread fear, claiming that the other side would engage in oppression against them and would exaggerate death tolls to increase support from their populations.[69]In the beginning months of the war, the Serb-dominated Yugoslav army and navy deliberately shelled civilian areas of Split and Dubrovnik, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as well as nearby Croat villages.[70]Yugoslav media claimed that the actions were done due to what they claimed was a presence of fascist Ustaše forces and international terrorists in the city.[70]UN investigations found that no such forces were in Dubrovnik at the time.[70]Croatian military presence increased later on. Montenegrin Prime MinisterMilo Đukanović,at the time an ally of Milošević, appealed to Montenegrin nationalism, promising that the capture of Dubrovnik would allow the expansion of Montenegro into the city which he claimed was historically part of Montenegro, and denounced the present borders of Montenegro as being "drawn by the old and poorly educated Bolshevik cartographers".[70]
At the same time, the Serbian government contradicted its Montenegrin allies through claims by the Serbian Prime MinisterDragutin Zelenović,who contended that Dubrovnik was historically Serbian, not Montenegrin.[42]The international media gave immense attention to the bombardment of Dubrovnik and claimed this was evidence of Milošević pursuing the creation of a Greater Serbia as Yugoslavia collapsed, presumably with the aid of the subordinate Montenegrin leadership of Bulatović and Serb nationalists in Montenegro to foster Montenegrin support for the retaking ofDubrovnik.[70]InVukovar,ethnic tensions between Croats and Serbs exploded into violence when the Yugoslav armyentered the townin November 1991. The Yugoslav army and Serbian paramilitaries devastated the town in urban warfare and the destruction of Croatian property. Serb paramilitaries committed atrocities against Croats, killing over 200, and displacing others to add to those who fled the town in the Vukovar massacre.[71]With Bosnia's demographic structure comprising a mixed population of Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats, the ownership of large areas of Bosnia was in dispute. From 1991 to 1992, the situation in the multi-ethnic Bosnia and Herzegovina grew tense. Its parliament was fragmented on ethnic lines into a plurality Bosniak faction and minority Serb and Croat factions. In 1991, the controversial nationalist leaderRadovan Karadžićof the largest Serb faction in the parliament, theSerb Democratic Party,gave a grave and direct warning to the Bosnian parliament should it decide to separate, saying:
This, what you are doing, is not good. This is the path that you want to take Bosnia and Herzegovina on, the same highway of hell and death that Slovenia and Croatia went on. Don't think that you won't take Bosnia and Herzegovina into hell, and the Muslim people maybe into extinction. Because the Muslim people cannot defend themselves if there is war here.
— Radovan Karadžić, 14 October 1991.[72]
In the meantime, behind the scenes, negotiations began between Milošević and Tuđman to divide Bosnia and Herzegovina into Serb and Croat administered territories to attempt to avert war between Bosnian Croats and Serbs.[73]Bosnian Serbs held the November 1991 referendum which resulted in an overwhelming vote in favor of staying in a common state with Serbia and Montenegro. In public, pro-state media in Serbia claimed to Bosnians that Bosnia and Herzegovina could be included a new voluntary union within a new Yugoslavia based on democratic government, but this was not taken seriously by Bosnia and Herzegovina's government.[74]On 9 January 1992, the Bosnian Serb assembly proclaimed a separate Republic of the Serb People of Bosnia and Herzegovina (the soon-to-beRepublic of Srpska), and proceeded to form Serbian autonomous regions (SARs) throughout the state. The Serbian referendum on remaining in Yugoslavia and the creation of Serbian autonomous regions (SARs) were proclaimed unconstitutional by the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The independence referendum sponsored by the Bosnian government was held on 29 February and 1 March 1992. That referendum was in turn declared contrary to the Bosnian and federal constitution by the Federal Constitution Court and the newly established Bosnian Serb government; it was also largely boycotted by the Bosnian Serbs. According to the official results, the turnout was 63.4%, and 99.7% of the voters voted for independence.[75]It was unclear what the two-thirds majority requirement actually meant and whether it was satisfied. Following the separation of Bosnia and Herzegovina on 27 April 1992, the SFR Yugoslavia had, de facto, dissolved into five successor states: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia and theFederal Republic of Yugoslavia(later renamed "Serbia and Montenegro"). TheBadinter Commissionlater (1991–1993) noted that Yugoslavia disintegrated into several independent states, so it is not possible to talk about the secession of Slovenia and Croatia from Yugoslavia.[11]
Post-1992 UN membership[edit]
In September 1992, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (consisting ofSerbiaandMontenegro) failed to achievede jurerecognition as the continuation of the Socialist Federal Republic in the United Nations. It was separately recognised as a successor alongside Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Macedonia. Before 2000, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia declined to re-apply for membership in the United Nations and theUnited Nations Secretariatallowed the mission from the SFRY to continue to operate and accredited representatives of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to the SFRY mission, continuing work in various United Nations organs.[76]It was only after theoverthrow of Slobodan Milošević,that the government of FR Yugoslavia applied for UN membership in 2000.
Politics[edit]
Constitution[edit]
TheYugoslav Constitutionwas adopted in1946and amended in1953,1963,and1974.[77]The League of Communists of Yugoslavia won the first elections, and remained in power throughout the state's existence. It was composed of individual Communist parties from each constituent republic. The party would reform its political positions through party congresses in which delegates from each republic were represented and voted on changes to party policy, the last of which was held in 1990. Yugoslavia's parliament was known as theFederal Assemblywhich was housed in the building which currently houses Serbia's parliament. The Federal Assembly was composed entirely of Communist members. The primary political leader of the state was Josip Broz Tito, but there were several other important politicians, particularly after Tito's death.
In 1974, Tito was elected President-for-life of Yugoslavia.[78]After Tito's death in 1980, the single position of president was divided into a collective Presidency, where representatives of each republic would essentially form a committee where the concerns of each republic would be addressed and from it, collective federal policy goals and objectives would be implemented. The head of the collective presidency was rotated between representatives of the republics. The collective presidency was considered the head of state of Yugoslavia. The collective presidency was ended in 1991, as Yugoslavia fell apart. In 1974, major reforms to Yugoslavia's constitution occurred. Among the changes was the controversial internal division of Serbia, which created two autonomous provinces within it, Vojvodina and Kosovo. Each of these autonomous provinces had voting power equal to that of the republics, and were represented in the Serbian assembly.[79]
Women's rights policy[edit]
The1946 Yugoslav Constitutionaimed to unify family law throughout Yugoslavia and to overcome discriminatory provisions, particularly concerning economic rights, inheritance, child custody and the birth of 'illegitimate' children. Article 24 of the Constitution affirmed the equality of women in society, stating that: "Women have equal rights with men in all areas of state, economic and socio-political life."[80]
At the end of the 1940s, theWomen's Antifascist Front of Yugoslavia(AFŽ), an organization founded during the Resistance to involve women in politics, was tasked with implementing a socialist policy for the emancipation of women, targeting in particular the most backward rural areas. AFŽ activists were immediately confronted with the gap between officially proclaimed rights and women's daily lives. The reports drawn up by local AFŽ sections in the late 1940s and 1950s testify to the extent of patriarchal domination, physical exploitation and poor access to education faced by the majority of women, particularly in the countryside.[80]
AFŽ also led a campaign against the full veil, which covered the whole body and face, until it was banned in the 1950s.[80]
By the 1970s, thirty years after women's rights were enshrined in the Yugoslav Constitution, the country had undergone a rapid process of modernisation and urbanisation. Women's literacy and access to the labour market had reached unprecedented levels, and inequalities in women's rights had been considerably reduced compared to the inter-war period. Yet full equality was far from being achieved.[80]
Federal units[edit]
Internally, the Yugoslav federation was divided into sixconstituent states.Their formation was initiated during the war years, and finalized in 1944–1946. They were initially designated asfederated states,but after the adoption of the first federal Constitution, on 31 January 1946, they were officially namedpeople's republics(1946–1963), and latersocialist republics(from 1963 forward). They were constitutionally defined as mutually equal in rights and duties within the federation. Initially, there were initiatives to create severalautonomous unitswithin some federal units, but that was enforced only in Serbia, where two autonomous units (Vojvodina and Kosovo) were created (1945).[81][82]
In Alpha betical order, the republics and provinces were:
| Name | Capital | Flag | Coat of Arms | Location |
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| Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina | Sarajevo |  |
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| Socialist Republic of Croatia | Zagreb |  |
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| Socialist Republic of Macedonia | Skopje |  |
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| Socialist Republic of Montenegro | Titograd(now Podgorica) |  |
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| Socialist Republic of Serbia | Belgrade | |
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| Socialist Republic of Slovenia | Ljubljana |  |
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Foreign policy[edit]
Under Tito, Yugoslavia adopted a policy of nonalignment in the Cold War. It developed close relations with developing countries by having a leading role in the Non-Aligned Movement, as well as maintaining cordial relations with the United States and Western European countries. Stalin considered Tito a traitor and openly offered condemnation towards him. Yugoslavia provided major assistance to anti-colonialist movements in the Third World. The Yugoslav delegation was the first to bring the demands of the AlgerianNational Liberation Frontto the United Nations. In January 1958, theFrench Navyboarded theSlovenijacargo ship offOran,whose holds were filled with weapons for the insurgents. Diplomat Danilo Milic explained that "Tito and the leading nucleus of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia really saw in the Third World's liberation struggles a replica of their own struggle against the fascist occupants. They vibrated to the rhythm of the advances or setbacks of the FLN orVietcong."[83]Thousands of Yugoslavmilitary advisorstravelled toGuineaafter its decolonisation and as the French government tried to destabilise the country. Tito also covertly helped left-wing nationalist movements to destabilize thePortuguese colonial empire.Tito saw the murder ofPatrice Lumumbaby Belgian-backed Katangan separatists in 1961 as the "greatest crime in contemporary history". Yugoslavia's military academies trained left-wing activists from bothSwapo(modernNamibia) and thePan Africanist Congress of Azaniaas part of Tito's efforts to destabilizeSouth Africa under apartheid.In 1980, theintelligence servicesof South Africa and Argentina plotted to return the favor by covertly bringing 1,500 anti-communist urban guerrillas to Yugoslavia. The operation was aimed at overthrowing Tito and was planned during the Olympic Games period so that the Soviets would be too busy to react. The operation was finally abandoned due to Tito's death and the Yugoslav armed forces raising their alert level.[83]
After World War II, Yugoslavia became a leader in international tourism among socialist states, motivated by both ideological and financial purposes. In the 1960s, many foreigners were able to get a visa on arrival and, later onward, were issued a tourist card for short stays. Numerous reciprocal agreements for abolishing visas were implemented with other countries (mainly Western European), through the decade. For the International Year of Tourism in 1967 Yugoslavia suspended visa requirements for all countries it had diplomatic relations with.[84][85]In the same year, Tito became active in promoting a peaceful resolution of theArab–Israeli conflict.His plan called for Arab countries to recognize the State of Israel in exchange for Israel returning territories it had gained.[86]The Arab countries rejected his land for peace concept.[citation needed]However, that same year, Yugoslavia no longer recognized Israel.[citation needed]
In 1968, following theSoviet invasion of Czechoslovakia,Tito added an additional defense line to Yugoslavia's borders with the Warsaw Pact countries.[87]Later in 1968, Tito then offered Czechoslovak leaderAlexander Dubčekthat he would fly toPragueon three hours notice if Dubček needed help in facing down the Soviet Union which was occupyingCzechoslovakiaat the time.[88]
Yugoslavia had mixed relations towardsEnver Hoxha'sAlbania.Initially Yugoslav-Albanian relations were forthcoming, as Albania adopted a common market with Yugoslavia and required the teaching of Serbo-Croatian to students in high schools.[citation needed]At this time, the concept of creating a Balkan Federation was being discussed between Yugoslavia, Albania, and Bulgaria.[citation needed]Albania at this time was heavily dependent on economic support of Yugoslavia to fund its initially weak infrastructure. Trouble between Yugoslavia and Albania began when Albanians began to complain that Yugoslavia was paying too little for Albania's natural resources.[citation needed]Afterward, relations between Yugoslavia and Albania worsened. From 1948 onward, the Soviet Union backed Albania in opposition to Yugoslavia. On the issue of Albanian-populated Kosovo, Yugoslavia and Albania both attempted to neutralize the threat of nationalist conflict, Hoxha opposedAlbanian nationalism,as he officially believed in theworld communistideal of international brotherhood of all people, though on a few occasions in the 1980s he made inflammatory speeches in support of Albanians in Kosovo against the Yugoslav government, when public sentiment in Albania was firmly in support of Kosovo's Albanians.[citation needed]
Economy[edit]
Despite their common origins, the socialist economy of Yugoslavia was much different from theeconomy of the Soviet Unionand theeconomies of the Eastern Bloc,especially after theYugoslav–Soviet break-upof 1948. Though they werestate-owned enterprises,Yugoslav companies were nominally collectively managed by the employees themselves throughworkers' self-management,albeit with state oversight dictating wage bills and the hiring and firing of managers.[89]The occupation and liberation struggle in World War II left Yugoslavia's infrastructure devastated. Even the most developed parts of the country were largely rural, and the little industry the country had was largely damaged or destroyed.[citation needed]Unemployment was a chronic problem for Yugoslavia:[90]the unemployment rates were amongst the highest in Europe during its existence and they did not reach critical levels before the 1980s only due to the safety valve provided by sending one million guest workers yearly to advanced industrialized countries inWestern Europe.[91]The departure of Yugoslavs seeking work began in the 1950s, when individuals began slipping across the border illegally. In the mid-1960s, Yugoslavia lifted emigration restrictions and the number of emigrants increased rapidly, especially toWest Germany.By the early 1970s, 20% of the country's labor force or 1.1 million workers were employed abroad.[92]This was also a source of capital and foreign currency for Yugoslavia.
Due to Yugoslavia's neutrality and its leading role in the Non-Aligned Movement, Yugoslav companies exported to both Western and Eastern markets. Yugoslav companies carried out construction of numerous major infrastructural and industrial projects in Africa, Europe and Asia.[citation needed]In the 1970s, the economy was reorganized according to Edvard Kardelj's theory of associated labor, in which the right to decision-making and a share in profits of worker-runcooperativesis based on the investment of labour. All companies were transformed intoorganizations of associated labor.The smallest,basic organizations of associated labor,roughly corresponded to a small company or a department in a large company. These were organized intoenterpriseswhich in turn associated intocomposite organizations of associated labor,which could be large companies or even whole-industry branches in a certain area. Most executive decision-making was based inenterprises,so that these continued tocompeteto an extent, even when they were part of a same composite organization.
In practice, the appointment of managers and the strategic policies of composite organizations were, depending on their size and importance, often subject to political and personal influence-peddling. In order to give all employees, the same access to decision-making, thebasic organisations of associated laborwere also applied to public services, including health and education. The basic organizations were usually made up of no more than a few dozen people and had their ownworkers' councils,whose assent was needed for strategic decisions and appointment of managers in enterprises or public institutions.
The results of these reforms however were not satisfactory.[clarification needed]There have been rampant wage-price inflations, substantial rundown of capital plant and consumer shortages, while the income gap between the poorer Southern and the relatively affluent Northern regions of the country remained.[93]The self-management system stimulated the inflationary economy that was needed to support it. Large state-owned enterprises operated as monopolists with unrestricted access to capital that was shared according to political criteria.[91]Theoil crisis of 1973magnified the economic problems, which the government tried to solve with extensive foreign borrowing. Although such actions resulted in a reasonable rate of growth for a few years (GNP grew at 5.1% yearly), such growth was unsustainable since the rate of foreign borrowing grew at an annual rate of 20%.[94]
After the relatively prosperous 1970s, life conditions deteriorated in Yugoslavia in the 1980s, and were reflected in soaring unemployment rates and inflation. In the late 1980s, the unemployment rate in Yugoslavia was over 17%, with another 20%underemployed;with 60% of the unemployed under the age of 25. Real net personal income declined by 19.5%.[90]The nominal GDP per capita of Yugoslavia at current prices in US dollars was at $3,549 in 1990.[95]The central government tried to reform the self-management system and create an open market economy with considerable state ownership of major industrial factories, butstrikesin major plants andhyperinflation held back progress.[93]
TheYugoslav warsand consequent loss of market, as well as mismanagement and/or non-transparent privatization, brought further economic trouble for all the former republics of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.[citation needed]
The Yugoslav currency was theYugoslav dinar.
Various economic indicators around 1990 were:[93]
- Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2,700% (1989 est.)
- Unemployment rate: 15% (1989)
- GNP: $129.5 billion, per capita $5,464; real growth rate – 1.0% (1989 est.)
- Budget: revenues $6.4 billion; expenditures $6.4 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1990)
- Exports: $13.1 billion (f.o.b., 1988); commodities—raw materials and semimanufactures 50%, consumer goods 31%, capital goods and equipment 19%; partners—EC 30%, CEMA 45%, less developed countries 14%, US 5%, other 6%
- Imports: $13.8 billion (c.i.f., 1988); commodities—raw materials and semimanufactures 79%, capital goods and equipment 15%, consumer goods 6%; partners—EC 30%, CEMA 45%, less developed countries 14%, US 5%, other 6%
- External debt: $17.0 billion, medium and long term (1989)
- Electricity: 21,000,000 kW capacity; 87,100 million kWh produced, 3,650 kWh per capita (1989)
Transportation[edit]
Air transport[edit]
In the interwar period, air transport in Yugoslavia was organised by the privately ownedAeroputcompany, but its post-war operations were suspended due to nationalization and near-total fleet destruction during the war.[96]The first plan for the post-war public air transport reconstruction was introduced by the Commission for the Economic Reconstruction on 28 December 1944.[96]The plan envisaged a national network which would includeBelgrade,Zagreb,Ljubljana,Sarajevo,Titograd,Skopje,Novi Sad,Kraljevo,Niš,Borovo,Rijeka,Zadar,Split,Dubrovnik,Banja Luka,Mostar,MariborandTrieste.[96]
Initial charter public flights were organised by military planes, while the first regular international line after the war was introduced on 6 October 1945 between Belgrade andPrague.[96]The initial public fleet consisted of four old German planes (Junkers Ju 52) and four Tukans purchased inFrancein 1945–46.[96]In August 1945 Yugoslavia received 11 Soviet Lisunov-Li 2 planes, but their usage was quickly discontinued in international transport, and partially discontinued in domestic transport, due to concerns over inadequate safety.[96]Yugoslavia therefore initiated purchase of 10 American excess and therefore cheap C-47 planes in 1946.[96]However, as Yugoslavia at the time was still a close Soviet ally, the US rejected the proposal pushing Yugoslavia to purchase three DC-3s inBelgiumwhich would be the basic type of planes in Yugoslav public fleet all up until 1960s.[96]The Yugoslav national public air transport companyJAT Airwayswas established in April 1947.[96]
While being a Communist country, after the Tito–Stalin split Yugoslavia initiated a period of military neutrality and non-alignment. Its airlines were supplied by both the East and the West.JAT Yugoslav Airlinesbecame the flag carrier by absorbing the previous company Aeroput. During its existence it grew to become one of the leading airlines in Europe both by fleet and destinations. Its fleet included most of the Western-built aircraft, and destinations included five continents. By the 1970s more airlines were created, namelyAviogenex,Adria AirwaysandPan Adria Airways,mostly focused in the growing tourist industry. The capitalBelgrade Airportbecame the regional hub offering flights, either by the national airline JAT, or by other airlines, to all important destinations worldwide. Aside from Belgrade, most international flights would include a stop inZagreb Airport,the second national airport in terms of passenger and cargo capacity; the two became the sole international hubs. All secondary airports such as the ones inSarajevo,Skopje,SplitorLjubljanawere directly linked to international flights through either Belgrade or Zagreb, while a number of tourism-oriented destinations were developed, such asDubrovnik,Rijeka,Ohrid,Tivatand others.
Railways[edit]
The railway system in Yugoslavia was operated by theYugoslav Railways.[97]Much of the infrastructure was inherited from the pre-WWII period, and the SFRY period was marked by the extension and electrification of the rails.[98]Electric and diesel locomotives were introduced in number from the 1960s onwards. Much of the early rolling stock were European produced, while with time were being replaced with domestically built locomotives, mostly fromRade Končarand carriages, mostly from GOŠA. The main two projects during SFRY period were electrification of theZagreb–Belgrade railway,and the building of the highly challengingBelgrade–Bar railway.[98]Yugoslav railways operated a number of international services, such as theOrient Express.
Roads[edit]
The core of the road network in Yugoslavia was theBrotherhood and Unity Highwaywhich was a highway that stretched over 1,182 km (734 mi),[99]from theAustrianborder atRatečenearKranjska Gorain the northwest viaLjubljana,Zagreb,Belgrade andSkopjetoGevgelijaon theGreekborder in the southeast. It was the main modern highway in the country, connecting four constituent republics. It was the pioneer highway in Central-Eastern Europe, and the main link between Central and Western Europe with South-Eastern Europe and Middle East. Construction began on the initiative of President Tito. The first section between Zagreb and Belgrade was built with the effort of theYugoslav People's Armyand volunteerYouth Work Actionsand was opened in 1950. The section between Ljubljana and Zagreb was built by 54,000 volunteers in less than eight months in 1958.[100]
Maritime and river transportation[edit]
With its extensive coast in theAdriatic sea,Yugoslavia included several large ports such as Split, Rijeka, Zadar or Pula.[101]Ferries providing passenger service were established linking Yugoslav ports with several ports in Italy and Greece. Regarding rivers, theDanubewas navigable throughout its entire course in Yugoslavia, linking the ports of Belgrade, Novi Sad, and Vukovar with Central Europe and the Black sea. Long stretches of riversSava,DravaandTiszawere also navigable.
Urban[edit]
Accompanying the high urban growth, urban transportation in Yugoslavia was significantly developed in all republic capitals and major cities. Urban bus networks existed in all cities, while many also included trolleybuses and trams. Despite having been planned for decades,Belgrade Metronever materialised, and Belgrade became the major capital in Europe not to have metro.[102][103]Instead, Belgrade city authorities opted for the development of urban rail transport,Beovoz,and an extensive tram, bus and trolley network. Besides capital Belgrade, other cities developed tram networks as well. The urban rail transport infrastructure in Yugoslavia consisted of:
- Bosnia and Herzegovina:
- Croatia:
- Serbia:
- Belgrade tram system
- Niš tram systemup to 1958
- Novi Sad tram systemup to 1958[106]
- Subotica tram systemup to 1974[107]
- Slovenia:
- Ljubljana tram systemup to 1958[108]
- Piran tram systemup to 1953
In theKingdom of Italy,there were also theOpatija tramandtrams in PulainIstriaprovince, after 1947 (de facto1945) ceded to Yugoslavia.
Communications[edit]
Radio and television[edit]
One of the founding members of theEuropean Broadcasting Union,Yugoslav Radio Television,known as JRT, was the nationalpublic broadcastingsystem in Yugoslavia.[109]It consisted of eight subnational radio and television broadcast centers with each one headquartered in one of the six constituent republics and two autonomous provinces.[110]Each television center created its own programming independently, and some of them operated several channels. This subnational broadcasting centers became public broadcasters of the newly independent states, with altered names, after the break-up of Yugoslavia.Zagreb Radiostarted broadcasting on 15 May 1926, and was the first public broadcasting facility in Southeast Europe.[111]On the 30th anniversary of the establishment of Zagreb Radio station, on 15 May 1956, the first television programme was broadcast. This was the first TV station in Yugoslavia and would later become a color station in 1972.RT BelgradeandRT Ljubljanastarted broadcasting its television programmes two years later, in 1958.
Geography[edit]
Like the Kingdom of Yugoslavia that preceded it, the SFRY bordered Italy and Austria to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast,RomaniaandBulgariato the east, Greece to the south, Albania to the southwest, and the Adriatic Sea to the west. During the socialist period it was common for history and geography teachers to teach their students that Yugoslavia was surrounded with "BRIGAMA",a Serbo-Croatian word meaningworriesthat was also anacronymof the initials of all the countries Yugoslavia bordered with, transformed into amnemonicprinciple used for both easy learning and ironic reminder of the difficult relations Yugoslav people had with its neighbors in the past.[112]The most significant change to the borders of the SFRY occurred in 1954, when the adjacentFree Territory of Triestewas dissolved by theTreaty of Osimo.The Yugoslav Zone B that was under military occupation by the Yugoslav People's Army since 1945, which covered 515.5 square kilometres (199.0 sq mi), became part of the SFRY. In 1991, the SFRY's territory disintegrated as the independent states of Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina separated from it, though the Yugoslav military controlled parts of Croatia and Bosnia prior to the state's dissolution. By 1992, only the republics of Serbia and Montenegro remained committed to a union, and formed theFederal Republic of Yugoslavia(FRY) in that year.
Demographics[edit]
Ethnic groups[edit]
The SFRY recognised "nations"(narodi)and "nationalities"(narodnosti)separately;[113]the former included the constituent South Slavic peoples (Croats,Macedonians,Montenegrins,Muslims(from 1971), Serbs andSlovenes), while the latter included other Slavic and non-Slavic ethnic groups. In total, about 26 known sizeable ethnic groups were known to live in Yugoslavia. There was also aYugoslavethnic designation, for the people who wanted to identify with the entire country, including people who were born to parents in mixed marriages.[114]
Languages[edit]
The population of Yugoslavia spoke mainly three languages: Serbo-Croatian,SloveneandMacedonian.[115]Serbo-Croatian was spoken by the populations in the federated republics of SR Serbia, SR Croatia, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina and SR Montenegro – a total of 17 million people by the late 1980s. Slovene was spoken by approximately 2 million inhabitants ofSR Slovenia,while Macedonian was spoken by 1.8 million inhabitants ofSR Macedonia.National minorities used their own languages as well, with 506,000 speakingHungarian(primarily in SAP Vojvodina), and 2,000,000 persons speakingAlbanianin SR Serbia (primarily in SAP Kosovo), SR Macedonia and SR Montenegro.Turkish,Romanian(primarily in SAP Vojvodina), andItalian(primarily in Istria and parts of Dalmatia) were also spoken to a lesser extent.[115]The Yugoslav Albanians, almost exclusivelyGhegs,chose to use the unified standard language of Albania predominantly based onTosk Albanian(a different dialect), for political reasons.[116][117]The three main languages all belong to theSouth Slaviclanguage group and are thus similar, allowing most people from different areas to understand each other. Intellectuals were mostly acquainted with all three languages, while people of more modest means from SR Slovenia and SR Macedonia were provided an opportunity to learn Serbo-Croatian during the compulsory service in the federal military. Serbo-Croatian itself is made-up of three dialects,Shtokavian,Kajkavian,andChakavian,with Shtokavian used as the standard official dialect of the language. Official Serbo-Croatian (Shtokavian), was divided into two similar variants, the Croatian (Western) variant and Serbian (Eastern) variant, with minordifferencestelling the two apart.[115]Two Alpha bets used in Yugoslavia were: theLatin Alpha betand theCyrillic script.Both Alpha bets were modified for use by Serbo-Croatian in the 19th century, thus the Serbo-Croatian Latin Alpha bet is more closely known asGaj's Latin Alpha bet,while Cyrillic is referred to as theSerbian Cyrillic Alpha bet.Serbo-Croatian uses both Alpha bets, Slovene uses only the Latin Alpha bet, and Macedonian uses only the Cyrillic Alpha bet. Bosnian and Croatian variants of the language used exclusively Latin, while the Serbian variant used both Latin and Cyrillic.[115]
Emigration[edit]
The small or negative population growth in the former Yugoslavia reflected a high level ofemigration.Even before the breakup of the country, during the 1960s and 1970s, Yugoslavia was one of the most important "sending societies" of international migration. An important receiving society wasSwitzerland,target of an estimated total of 500,000 migrants, who now account for more than 6% of total Swiss population.[citation needed]By the early 1970s, more than one million Yugoslav citizens lived abroad, two-thirds of which were inWest Germany,where they were known asGastarbeiters.[118]Significant numbers emigrated toAustria,Australia,Swedenand to theUnited StatesandCanadaas well.
Emigration of Yugoslav workers was legalised in 1963, as Yugoslavia experienced aneconomic recession,a high rate of unemployment and a growing debt inhard currencythrough the two years prior, although another factor for the decision were the already widespread illegal crossings of Yugoslavs looking for work abroad as 'tourists' throughout the second half of 1950s. Yugoslav leadership would remain dedicated to strengthening and protecting rights of its workers abroad, throughembassies,consulates,trade unionistsand 'social workers' who among regular workers were responsible for offering themlegalandsocial support.[119]
Military[edit]
The armed forces of SFR Yugoslavia consisted of the Yugoslav People's Army (Jugoslovenska narodna armija,JNA), Territorial Defense (TO), Civil Defense (CZ) andMilicija(police) in wartime. Socialist Yugoslavia maintained a strong military force. JNA was the main organization of the military forces plus the remnacents of the royal Yugoslav army, and was composed of the ground army, navy and aviation. Militarily, Yugoslavia had a policy of self-sufficiency. Due to its policy of neutrality and non-alignment, efforts were made to develop the country's military industry to provide the military with all its needs, and even for export. Most of its military equipment and pieces were domestically produced, while some was imported both from the East and the West. The regular army mostly originated from the Yugoslav Partisans of World War II.[120]
Yugoslavia had a thrivingarms industryand exported to nations, primarily those who werenon-alignedas well as others likeIraq,andEthiopia.[120]Yugoslav companies likeZastava Armsproduced Soviet-designed weaponry under license as well as creating weaponry from scratch, ranging from police pistols to airplanes.SOKOwas an example of a successful military aircraft design by Yugoslavia before the Yugoslav wars. Beside the federal army, each of the republics had their own respective Territorial Defense Forces.[120]They were a national guard of sorts, established in the frame of a newmilitary doctrinecalled "General Popular Defense" as an answer to the brutal end of thePrague Springby the Warsaw Pact inCzechoslovakiain 1968.[121]It was organized on republic, autonomous province, municipality and local community levels. Given that its role was mainly defense, it had no formal officer training regime, no offensive capabilities and little military training.[121]AsYugoslavia splintered,the army factionalized along ethnic lines, and by 1991–92 Serbs made up almost the entire army as the separating states formed their own.
Education[edit]
Period of the existence of the SFR Yugoslavia was marked by significant development in the field of education.[122]The immediate period after the World War II was marked by the organization of widespreadliteracy(analfabetism) courses which resulted in decrease in the number ofilliteratecitizens (particularlywomenwho constituted 70% of students) from 4,408,471 (44.6% of population above 10 years in 1931) to 3,162,941 (25.4% of population above 10 years in 1948), 3,066,165 (21% in 1961), 2,549.571 (15.1% in 1971), and 1,780.902 (9,5% in 1981) and with continuous increasing average age among illiterate population.[122]In 1946 there were 10,666elementary schoolswith 1.441.679 students and 23.270 teachers while the number of elementary school students peaked in 1975/76 academic year with 2,856,453 students.[122]The country introduced universal eight year elementary public education in 1958.[122]Between 1946 and 1987 the number ofhigh schoolsin Yugoslavia rose from 959 to 1248 with 6.6% of population with high school diploma in 1953 and 25.5% in 1981.[122]Only 0.6% of population heldhigher educationdegree in 1953 with number rising to 1.3% in 1961, 2.8% in 1971 and 5.6% in 1981.[122]While economy andjob marketof the interwar kingdom was unable to absorb significantly smaller numbers of qualified workers, post-war Yugoslav economy was despite improvements continually faced with a lack of qualified workforce.[122]
Universities[edit]
TheUniversity of Zagreb(founded 1669),University of Belgrade(founded 1808) and theUniversity of Ljubljana(founded 1919) already existed before the creation of Socialist Yugoslavia. Between 1945 and 1992 numerous universities were established throughout the country:[123]
- University of Sarajevo(1949)
- University of Skopje(1949)
- University of Novi Sad(1960)
- University of Niš(1965)
- University of Pristina(1970)
- University of Arts in Belgrade(1973)
- University of Rijeka(1973)
- University of Split(1974)
- University of Titograd(1974)
- University of Banja Luka(1975)
- University of Maribor(1975)
- University of Osijek(1975)
- University of Kragujevac(1976)
- University of Tuzla(1976)
- University of Mostar(1977)
- University of Bitola(1979)
Arts[edit]
Prior to the collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, Yugoslavia had a modern multicultural society. Characteristic attention was based on the concept of brotherhood and unity and the memory of the Communist Yugoslav Partisans' victory against fascists and nationalists as the rebirth of the Yugoslav people, although all forms of art flourished freely unlike in other socialist countries. In the SFRY the history of Yugoslavia during World War II was omnipresent, and was portrayed as a struggle not only between Yugoslavia and the Axis Powers, but as a struggle between good and evil within Yugoslavia with the multiethnic Yugoslav Partisans were represented as the "good" Yugoslavs fighting against manipulated "evil" Yugoslavs – the Croatian Ustaše and SerbianChetniks.[124]The SFRY was presented to its people as the leader of the non-aligned movement and that the SFRY was dedicated to creating a just, harmonious,Marxistworld.[125] Artists from different ethnicities in the country were popular amongst other ethnicities, and the film industry in Yugoslavia avoided nationalist overtones until the 1990s.[126]Unlike in other socialist societies, Yugoslavia was considered tolerant to a popular and classical art as long as it was not overly critical of the ruling regime, which made Yugoslavia appear to be a free country despite its one-party regime structure.
Literature[edit]
Significant number of Yugoslav writers supported Yugoslav Partisans efforts during the World War II with some of the most prominent of them beingVladimir Nazor,Oton Župančič,Matej Bor,Kočo Racin,Kajuh,Ivan Goran Kovačić,Skender KulenovićandBranko Ćopić.[127]Socialist realismwas a dominant style in the first couple of years after the war yet much more pluralistic attitude developed later.[127]Throughout the period Yugoslav literature was approached as an umbrella term for various local literatures with their own characteristics and inner diversity.[127]The most important international breakthrough for the Yugoslav literature was 1961Nobel Prize for Literaturelaureate award toIvo Andrić.[127]Other prominent Yugoslav writers of the era wereMiroslav Krleža,Meša Selimović,Mak Dizdarand others.
Graphic arts[edit]
Notable painters included:Đorđe Andrejević Kun,Petar Lubarda,Mersad Berber,Milić od Mačveand others. Prominent sculptor wasAntun Augustinčićwho made a monument standing in front of theUnited Nations Headquartersin New York City.[128]
Film[edit]
Yugoslav cinemafeatured notable actors such asDanilo Stojković,Mustafa Nadarević,Bata Živojinović,Dragan Nikolić,Ljubiša Samardžić,Boris Dvornik,Milena Dravić,Bekim Fehmiu,Rade Šerbedžija,among many others.[129][130][131]Film directors included:Emir Kusturica,Dušan Makavejev,Duša Počkaj,Goran Marković,Lordan Zafranović,Goran Paskaljević,Živojin PavlovićandHajrudin Krvavac.Many Yugoslav films featured eminent foreign actors such asOrson Welles,Sergei Bondarchuk,Franco NeroandYul Brynnerin theAcademy AwardnominatedThe Battle of Neretva,andRichard BurtoninSutjeska.Also, many foreign films were shot on locations in Yugoslavia including domestic crews, such asKelly's Heroes,Force 10 from Navarone,Armour of God,as well asEscape from Sobibor.
Music[edit]
Traditional music[edit]
Prominenttraditional musicartists were the award-winningTanecensemble, theRomani musicperformerEsma Redžepovaand others. A very popular genre in Yugoslavia, also exported to other neighboring countries, and also popular among the Yugoslav emigration worldwide, was theNarodna muzika.The Slovenian most popular folk music was played by Avsenik brothers (Ansambel bratov Avsenik) and Lojze Slak.Thefolk musicemerged in force during the 1970s and 1980s, and by the 1980s and 1990s the so-called novokomponovana muzika style appeared and gave place to controversialturbo-folkstyle.Lepa Brenain the 1980s become the most popular singer of the Yugoslavia, and a top-selling female recording artist with more than 40 million records sold.[132][133][134]Folk performers enjoyed great popularity and became constant presence in the tabloids and media. Yugoslav music scene in its diverse genres became known internationally, from traditional folklore music being appreciated worldwide, through rock-pop music being appreciated in Eastern, and lesser extent, Western Europe, to turbo-folk music being widely exported to neighboring countries.
Classical music[edit]
The pianistIvo Pogorelićand the violinistStefan Milenkovićwere internationally acclaimed classical music performers, whileJakov Gotovacwas a prominent composer and a conductor.
Popular music[edit]
Yugoslavia had a moderately high degree of artistic and musical freedom, owing in part to theTito–Stalin split,which saw the country pursue positive relations with many countries outside theEastern Bloc.[135][136]: 862 Popular music in Yugoslavia had a diverse array of stylistic influences from throughout the world.[135]Western-influencedpopular musicwas socially accepted, more so than in Eastern Bloc countries, and was well-covered in the media, which included numerous concerts, music magazines, radio and TV shows. Aspiring artists could travel to the capitalist countries ofWestern Europe,and bring back musical instruments and equipment.[135]
Prior toWorld War II,Yugoslavia was among the least developed countries inEurope.[136]: 861 Apart from a small urban elite, much of the population was illiterate, lacked access to musical training, instruments, and radios.[136]: 861 The country also suffered from among the highest degree of losses in Europe from World War II.[136]: 861 During the 1940s, theCommunist Party of Yugoslaviaactively promoted socialist realism through agitprop, including music.[136]: 865 Many party leaders disparaged Western-style popular music such as jazz, with such music often being stigmatized or censored.[136]: 866 However, due to their geography, the Socialist Republics ofSloveniaandCroatiahad high exposure to popular music from neighboringAustriaandItalyduring this time.[136]: 864–865 In lieu of it, music imported from theSoviet Unionwas commonplace, but Communist Party officials were wary of that too, and many felt belittled by Soviet officials.[136]: 866–867
In 1948, Yugoslavia was expelled fromCominform.[136]: 862 Upon this expulsion, the Communist Party of Yugoslavia no longer felt the need to engage inStalinist-styled cultural policies which suppressed non-propagandist popular music.[136]: 862 However, throughout the 1950s, some Party officials remained antagonistic towards music from Western countries.[136]: 868–869 As the country sought to foster more relationships outside of the Eastern Bloc, Yugoslavia opened up more and more through the late 1950s.[136]: 862 During the 1950s, Yugoslavia welcomed and hosted many famous international stars.[136]: 862
Yugoslavia's economy grew rapidly during the 1950s, enabling more resources to be allocated to consumer goods, including music.[136]: 870 The number of radios in the country increased dramatically, as did the production ofrecords.[136]: 870 While still tolerant of foreign music, the country's political leaders also sought to develop popular music which they felt embodied Yugoslavia's own national identity,[136]: 862 and many continued to perceive American cultural influence as politically propagandistic.[136]: 863 In the 1950s, domestic popular music festivals and artists' associations were being established and promoted.[136]: 868, 871 Many popular Yugoslav artists emerged during this time, including notable names such asĐorđe Marjanović,Gabi Novak,Majda Sepe,Zdenka Vučković,andVice Vukov.[136]: 871 TheYugoslav rock scene,which emerged in the late 1950s, generally followed Western European and American trends with local and Eastern European influence. During this time, the country had a heightened cultural exchange withMexico,which led to the emergence of a local genre of music which fused traditional Mexican elements, known asYu-Mex.[135]The ascendance of Yugoslav popular music became embraced by the state, which would actively promote it abroad.[136]: 871 Yugoslavia entered into theEurovision Song Contestin1961,becoming the only self-proclaimedsocialist,Eastern European,and predominantlySlaviccountry to do so.[136]: 871–872
Yugoslavia's entry into1989 Eurovision Song Contest,"Rock Me",performed by the groupRiva,won the contest, marking Yugoslavia's only first place in the competition during its history.
Notable Yugoslav rock acts includedAtomsko Sklonište,Azra,Bajaga i Instruktori,Đorđe Balašević,Bijelo Dugme,Buldožer,Crvena Jabuka,Zdravko Čolić,Divlje Jagode,Ekatarina Velika,Električni Orgazam,Film,Galija,Haustor,Idoli,Indexi,Korni Grupa,KUD Idijoti,Laboratorija Zvuka,Lačni Franz,Laibach,Leb i Sol,Josipa Lisac,Pankrti,Paraf,Parni Valjak,Partibrejkers,Pekinška Patka,Plavi Orkestar,Prljavo Kazalište,Psihomodo Pop,Riblja Čorba,September,Smak,Šarlo Akrobata,Time,YU Grupa,Zabranjeno Pušenjeand others.
Architectural heritage[edit]
Although Yugoslav cities and towns architecturally resembled and followed the styles of Central and Southeastern Europe, what became most characteristic of the SFRY period was the creation of a modernist or brutalist style architecture buildings and neighborhoods. Yugoslav cities expanded greatly during this period and the government often opted for the creation of modernist planned neighborhoods to accommodate the growing working middle-class. Such typical examples are theNovi BeogradandNovi Zagrebneighborhoods in two major cities.
Sports[edit]
FPR/SFR Yugoslavia developed a strong athletic sports community, notably in team sports such as association football, basketball, handball, water polo, and volleyball.
Football[edit]
The country's biggest footballing achievement came on the club level withRed Star Belgradewinning the1990–91 European Cup,beatingOlympique de Marseillein thefinalplayed on 29 May 1991.[137]Later that year, they became world club champions by beatingColo-Colo3–0 in theIntercontinental Cup.[138]
Previously, Red Star had reached the1978–79 UEFA Cuptwo-leggedfinal,while their Belgradecross-town rivalsPartizanhad been the1965–66 European Cupfinalists.[139]Dinamo Zagrebwonthe1966–67 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.Furthermore,Čelik Zenica(twice), Red Star Belgrade,Vojvodina,Partizan,Iskra Bugojno,andBorac Banja Lukawon theMitropa Cup;whileVelež Mostar,Rijeka,Dinamo Zagreb, andRadnički Niš,each won theBalkans Cup.
On the national team level,FPR/SFR Yugoslaviaqualified for sevenFIFA World Cups,the best result coming in1962inChilewith a 4th-place finish (equalizing the Kingdom of Yugoslavia achievement from1930).[140]The country also played in fourEuropean Championships.The best results came in 1960 and 1968 when the team lost in the finals—in1960to Soviet Union and in1968to Italy.[141][142]Yugoslavia was also the first non-Western European country to host a European Championship,UEFA Euro 1976.[143]
Additionally, theYugoslav Olympic teamwon gold at the1960 Olympicsin Rome, having previously won silver at the three preceding Olympic Games —1948in London,1952in Helsinki, and1956in Melbourne. The team additionally won bronze in1984in Los Angeles.
In the youth category,Yugoslavia under-20 teamqualified for just twoFIFA World Youth Championships,but won in1987in Chile while theYugoslav under-21 teamqualified for fourUEFA European Under-21 Football Championshipswinning the inaugural edition in1978and coming runners-up in1990.
On the individual player front, Yugoslavia produced some notable performers on the world stage; such asRajko Mitić,Stjepan Bobek,Bernard Vukas,Vladimir Beara,Dragoslav Šekularac,Milan Galić,Josip Skoblar,Ivan Ćurković,Velibor Vasović,Dragan Džajić,Safet Sušić,Dragan Stojković,Dejan Savićević,Darko Pančev,Robert Prosinečki,and others.
Basketball[edit]
Unlike football which inherited a lot of its infrastructure and know-how from the pre-World War II Kingdom of Yugoslavia, basketball had very little prior heritage. The sport was thus nurtured and developed from scratch within the Communist Yugoslavia through individual enthusiasts such asNebojša Popović,Bora Stanković,Radomir Šaper,Aca Nikolić,andRanko Žeravica.Though a member ofFIBAsince 1936, the national team did not qualify for a major competition until afterWorld War II.In 1948, the country's umbrella basketball association,Yugoslav Basketball Federation(KSJ), was established.
Following its major competition debut atEuroBasket 1947,Yugoslav national teamdid not take long to become a contender on world stage with the first medal, a silver, coming atEuroBasket 1961.The country's most notable results were winning threeFIBA World Championships(in1970,[144]1978,[145]and1990),[146]a gold medal at the1980 Olympicsin Moscow,[147]in addition to fiveEuropean Championships(three of them consecutively1973,1975,and1977,followed by two more consecutive ones in1989and1991).[148][149][150]As a result of the 1970 FIBA World Championship win, basketball experienced a significant surge of popularity throughout the country, leading to the authorities initiating construction of a number of indoor sporting facilities. Some of the arenas built during this period include: Zagreb'sDom Sportova(1972), Belgrade'sHala Pionir(1973),Baldekin Sports HallinŠibenik(1973),Dvorana MladostiinRijeka(1973),Hala Pinkiin the Belgrade municipality ofZemun(1974),Čair Sports CenterinNiš(1974), Kragujevac'sHala Jezero(1978),Morača Sports CenterinTitograd(1978), and theGripe Sports Centrein Split (1979).
Simultaneously, on the club level, a multi-tier league system was established in 1945 with theFirst Federal Leagueat the top of the pyramid. Initially played outdoors—on concrete and clay surfaces—and contested from early spring until mid autumn within the same calendar year due to weather constraints,league games began to be played indoorsfrom October 1967 despite the country still lacking appropriate infrastructure. Initially played in makeshift fair halls and industrial warehouses, club basketball in Yugoslavia experienced a significant organizational upgrade following the 1970 FIBA World Championship win with the country's Communist authorities authorizing construction of dozens of indoor sporting arenas around the country so that many clubs found permanent homes. Yugoslav clubs won theEuropean Champion's Cup,the continent's premiere basketball club competition, on seven occasions—KK Bosnain1979,KK Cibonain1985and1986,Jugoplastika Splitin1989,1990,and1991,andKK Partizanin1992.
Notable players includedRadivoj Korać,Ivo Daneu,Krešimir Ćosić,Zoran Slavnić,Dražen Dalipagić,Dragan Kićanović,Mirza Delibašić,Dražen Petrović,Vlade Divac,Dino Rađa,Toni Kukoč,andŽarko Paspalj.
Water polo[edit]
Water polo is another sport with a strong heritage in the era that predates the creation of Communist Yugoslavia. Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, the Yugoslav national team had always been a contender, but never quite managed to make the final step. It was in the 1968 Olympics that the generation led byMirko SandićandOzren Bonačićfinally got the gold, beating Soviet Union after extra time.[151]The country won two more Olympic golds – in 1984 and 1988. It also won two World Championship titles – in 1986 and 1991, the latter coming without Croatian players who by that time had already left the national team. The team won only one European Championship title, in 1991. The 1980s and early 1990s were the golden age for Yugoslav water polo during which players such asIgor Milanović,Perica Bukić,Veselin Đuho,Deni Lušić,Dubravko Šimenc,Milorad Krivokapić,Aleksandar Šoštarand others established themselves as among the best in the world.
Handball[edit]
Yugoslavia won two Olympic gold medals –1972in Munich (handball returned as an Olympic sport following a 36-year absence) and1984in Los Angeles. The country also won theWorld Championshipstitle in1986.SFR Yugoslavia never got to compete at theEuropean Championshipbecause the competition got established in 1994.Veselin Vujovićwas votedWorld Player of the Yearin 1988 (first time the vote was held) byIHF.Other notable players over the years includedAbaz Arslanagić,Zoran "Tuta" Živković,Branislav Pokrajac,Zlatan Arnautović,Mirko Bašić,Jovica Elezović,Mile Isaković,etc. On the women's side, the game also yielded some notable results – the women's team won Olympic gold in1984while it also wonWorld Championshipin1973.Just like Veselin Vujović in 1988 on the men's side,Svetlana Kitićwas voted the World Player of the Year for the same year. There was great enthusiasm in Yugoslavia when Sarajevo was selected as the site of the1984 Winter Olympic Games.[152]
Individual sports[edit]
FPR/SFR Yugoslavia also managed to produce a multitude of successful athletes in individual disciplines. Tennis had always been a popular and well-followed sport in the country. Still, due to lack of financial means for tennis infrastructure and support of individual athletes, the participation rates among the Yugoslav youngsters for tennis were always low compared to other sports. All this meant that talented players determined to make it to pro level mostly had to rely on their own families rather than the country's tennis federation. Yugoslav players still managed to produce some notable results, mostly in the women's game. In1977,the country got its firstGrand Slamchampion when clay court specialistMima Jaušovecwon atRoland Garros,beatingFlorența Mihai;Jaušovec reached two more French Open finals (in1978and1983), but lost both of them.[153][154]
It was with the rise of teenage phenomMonica Selesduring the early 1990s that the country became a powerhouse in female tennis: she won five Grand slam events under the flag of SFR Yugoslavia – two French Opens, two Australian Opens, and one US Open. She went on to win three more Grand Slam titles under the flag of FR Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) as well as yet one more Grand Slam after immigration to the United States. In men's tennis, Yugoslavia never produced a Grand Slam champion, though it had two finalists. In1970,Željko Franulovićreached the French Open final, losing toJan Kodeš.[155]Three years later, in1973,Nikola Pilićalso reached the French Open final, but lost it toIlie Năstase.[156]
Skiers have been very successful in World Cup competitions and the Olympics (Bojan Križaj, Jure Franko, Boris Strel, Mateja Svet). Winter-spots had a special boost during the 1984 Winter Olympics held in Sarajevo. GymnastMiroslav Cerarwon a number of accolades, including two Olympic gold medals during the early 1960s. During the 1970s a pair of Yugoslav boxers, heavyweightMate Parlovand welterweightMarijan Beneš,won multiple championships. During the late 1970s and into the 1980s, their results were matched by heavyweightSlobodan Kačar.For many years, Yugoslavia was considered[by whom?]the second strongestchessnation in the world after the Soviet Union. Arguably the biggest name in Yugoslav chess wasSvetozar Gligorić,who played in threeCandidates Tournamentsbetween 1953 and 1968 and in 1958 won theGolden Badgeas the best athlete in Yugoslavia.
National anthem[edit]
The national anthem of Yugoslavia was thePan-Slavicanthem "Hej, Sloveni"(transl. Hey, Slavs). First aired and sung on World War II-era sessions ofAVNOJ,it first served as ade factostate anthem of Yugoslavia duringits provisional establishmentin 1943. It was always intended to serve as a temporary anthem until a more Yugoslav-themed replacement was found, which never happened; as a result, it was constitutionally recognized in 1988 (and as temporary in 1977), after 43 years of continuedde facto'temporary' usage and only years prior tothe breakup.[157]The Yugoslav anthem was inherited by its successor state union ofSerbia and Montenegroand likewise was never replaced during its existence despite similar expectations.
Legacy[edit]
The present-day states which succeeded Yugoslavia are still today sometimes collectively referred to as theformer Yugoslavia(or shortened asEx-Yuor similar). These countries are, listed chronologically:
- Croatia(since 25 June 1991)
- Slovenia(since 25 June 1991)
- North Macedonia(since 25 September 1991;formerlyMacedonia)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina(since 3 March 1992)
- Federal Republic of Yugoslavia(SerbiaandMontenegro;1992–2006)
- Montenegro(since 3 June 2006)
- Serbia(since 5 June 2006)
- Kosovo(since17 February 2008;independencedisputed)
In 2001, former constituent republics reached the partially implementedAgreement on Succession Issues of the Former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslaviathat became effective on 2 June 2004.[158][159]
All of the successor states are or were candidates forEuropean Unionmembership, with Slovenia and Croatia being the two who have already joined the union.Slovenia joined in 2004,andCroatia followed in 2013.North Macedonia,MontenegroandSerbiaare official candidates.Bosnia and Herzegovinahas submitted an application andKosovohas not submitted an application but is recognized as a potential candidate for a possiblefuture enlargement of the European Union.[160]All states of the former Yugoslavia, with the exception of Kosovo, have subscribed to theStabilisation and Association Processwith the EU.European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovois a deployment of EU police and civilian resources to Kosovo in an attempt to restorerule of lawand combat the widespreadorganized crime.
The successor states of Yugoslavia continue to have apopulation growth ratethat is close to zero or negative. This is mostly due to emigration, which intensified during and after the Yugoslav Wars, during the 1990s to 2000s, but also due to low birth rates. More than 2.5 million refugees were created by the fighting inBosnia and HerzegovinaandKosovo,which led to a massive surge in North American immigration. Close to 120,000refugees from the former Yugoslaviawere registered in the United States from 1991 to 2002, and 67,000migrants from the former Yugoslaviawere registered in Canada between 1991 and 2001.[161][162][163][164]
Net population growth over the two decades between 1991 and 2011 was thus practically zero (below 0.1% p.a. on average). Broken down by territory:[needs update]
| Country | 1991 | 2011 | Growth rate p.a. (CAGR) |
Growth rate (2011 est.) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 4,377,000 | 3,688,865[165] | –0.9% | N/A |
| Croatia | 4,784,000 | 4,288,000 | −0.6% | −0.08% |
| North Macedonia | 2,034,000 | 2,077,000 | +0.1% | +0.25% |
| Montenegro | 615,000 | 662,000 | +0.4% | −0.71% |
| Serbia | 9,778,991 | 7,310,000[a] | −1.5% | −0.47% |
| Slovenia | 1,913,000 | 2,000,000 | +0.2% | −0.16% |
| Total | 23,229,846[166] | 21,115,000 | −0.5% | N/A |
| Source: TheCIA Factbookestimates for the successor states, as of July 2011[update] | ||||
Remembrance of the time of the joint state and its perceived positive attributes, such as the social stability, the possibility to travel freely, the level of education and the welfare system, is typically referred to asYugo-nostalgia.[167]People who identify with the former Yugoslav state may self-identify asYugoslavs.The social, linguistic, economic and cultural ties between former Yugoslav countries are sometimes referred to as the "Yugosphere".[168][169]
Notes[edit]
- ^Excluding Kosovo.
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- Yugoslavia's Self-Management by Daniel Jakopovich
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