Title: Creating a socialist Yugoslavia :
Authors: Haug, Hilde Katrine.
Date: 2012
Publisher: I.B. Tauris ;
Physical description: ix, 455 pages ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: D
Abstract: The Yugoslav communist leaders aspired to create a socialist Yugoslavia, and when they came into power in 1945, they claimed to have introduced a socialist solution to the Yugoslav national question. But what did it imply to 'solve a national question' and what did introducing a `socialist solution' to a national question entail? Creating a Socialist Yugoslavia: Tito, Communist Leadership and the National Question charts how the Yugoslav communist leaders approached the national question, and what influence the complex national relations in the multinational state of Yugoslavia had on the development of the Yugoslav communists' policies, and on their postwar socialist project. From 1935 to 1990, tremendous changes took place in the Yugoslav approach to the national question, and in the institutions they devised as part of this solution. There were also significant changes to the role of the republics and the relations between the different national groups within the Yugoslav state. Discussions on the national question were not absent during this period, despite the communists' claim to have solved it. Debates over what kind of Yugoslav unity was the most desirable continued to be a contentious question and different groups had different visions of this. A struggle over resources also developed between different republics. This book identifies and examines five particular phases in the communists' strategies towards the national question; each marked by particular processes, issues and challenges. The claim to have solved the national question often meant that this issue could not be discussed openly and had to be expressed in a particular rhetoric approved by the Party. Creating a Socialist Yugoslavia provides an authoritative account of the Yugoslav communist leaders' national policy and attempts to deal with the challenges encountered by the communists in reconciling their aspiration to create a socialist Yugoslavia with the need to regulate national conflict within the federation. --Book Jacket.
Contents: The Search for Revolutionary Responses to the National Question in Yugoslavia 1918-1935 -- Towards Yugoslav Federal Unity under Comintern Influence -- People's Liberation Struggle and Building of a New Yugoslavia 1941-1945 -- "White Lines on Marble Pillars": Republics, Autonomous Provinces and Borders -- Introducing a Socialist Solution to the National Question in Yugoslavia 1945-1948 -- Self-Management Socialism and Yugoslav Unity 1949-1958 -- Socialist Yugoslavism between Unity and Diversity 1958-1963 -- Institutional, Constitutional, and Ideological Changes Introduced in Yugoslavia 1964-1971 -- The National Questions Revisited -National Controversies 1967-1971 -- The Croatian National Revival and Crisis 1967-1971 -- A Reconsideration of the Purpose of the Yugoslav State 1971-1980 -- The end of Brotherhood and Unity: Yugoslav National Policy in the 1980s.
Subject headings (LCSH): Socialism--Yugoslavia--20th century.; Socialism--Yugoslavia--History--20th century.; Tito, Josip Broz, 1892-1980.; Yugoslavia--History--1918-1945.; Yugoslavia--History--1945-1980.; Yugoslavia--Politics and government--1918-1945.; Yugoslavia--Politics and government--1945-1980.