Creating a Socialist Yugoslavia: Tito, Communist Leadership and the National Question

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Bloomsbury Publishing, Mar 30, 2012 - History - 472 pages
When the Yugoslav communists came into power in 1945, they claimed to have introduced a socialist solution to the Yugoslav national question. But what did this claim imply? 'Creating a Socialist Yugoslavia: Tito, Communist Leadership and the National Question' charts the approach pursued by Yugoslav communist leaders from their endorsement in 1935 of a strategy committing to the search for a 'socialist solution' to the national question within a multinational Yugoslav context, until the party disintegrated in 1990. Hilde Katrine Haug examines the impact of the communist leadership's aspirations to create a socialist Yugoslavia on their management of national conflict in the highly heterogeneous Yugoslav state entity.
 

Contents

INTRODUCTION
1
1 THE SEARCH FOR REVOLUTIONARY RESPONSES TO THE NATIONAL QUESTION IN YUGOSLAVIA 19181935
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2 TOWARDS YUGOSLAV FEDERAL UNITY UNDER COMINTERN INFLUENCE
37
3 PEOPLES LIBERATION STRUGGLE AND BUILDING OF A NEW YUGOSLAVIA 19411945
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REPUBLICS AUTONOMOUS PROVINCES AND BORDERS
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5 INTRODUCING A SOCIALIST SOLUTION TO THE NATIONAL QUESTION IN YUGOSLAVIA 19451948
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6 TOWARDS SELFMANAGEMENT SOCIALISM AND YUGOSLAV UNITY 19481958
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7 SOCIALIST YUGOSLAVISM BETWEEN UNITY AND DIVERSITY 9581966
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10 THE CROATIAN NATIONAL REVIVAL AND YUGOSLAV CRISIS 19671971
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LIBERALS INTELLECTUALS AND THE SERBIAN QUESTION
263
12 A RECONSIDERATION OF THE PURPOSE OF THE YUGOSLAV STATE 19711980
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13 YUGOSLAVIA AFTER TITO
305
CONCLUSION
349
NOTES
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
429
INDEX
447

8 INSTITUTIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL AND IDEOLOGICAL CHANGES INTRODUCED IN YUGOSLAVIA 19641971
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NATIONAL CONTROVERSIES 19671971
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Hilde Katrine Haug works as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Balkan Area Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo. She holds a degree in Politics and Modern History from Queen's University, Belfast, and was awarded her PhD from the University of Oslo in 2007. She has worked for a number of years with refugees in Norway and internationally, and has participated in a number of OSCE election observation missions in Russia, Belarus, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan and Bosnia Herzegovina.

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