IZMEĐU IDEOLOGIJE I STVARNOSTI
BETWEEN IDEOLOGY AND REALITY

Summary/Abstract: Between 1945 and 1949, Communist Party of Yugoslavia followed concepts of cultural policy which were directly influenced by ideological models proclaimed by the USSR leadership and spearheaded by Stalin. Soviet ideological and cultural influence was reflected in propagation of socialist realism in art, removal of some cultural institutions of significant historical tradition and importance, destruction and sidetracking of elements of national heritage of Yugoslav peoples which were not in line with the system of values of new ideology. It was also implemented through the forceful removal of undesired artists and cultural figures from public life and creation of Agitprop apparatus as the mean of Party control over the cultural, artistic, educational and scholarly development. Due to the political conflict which emerged in 1948 between Yugoslavia and the Eastern Block, leadership of the CPY, headed by Tito was forced to counter the growing influence of Moscow, remaining at the same time on the ideological positions of Marxism-Leninism. Spiting complete isolation from the East, operating under the shadow of the planned invasion, CPY was implementing the concept of self-governing socialism through deetatisation, decentralisation, debureaucratisation and democratisation of state management, which brought about visible changes in the realm of art and culture, reflected in rejection of socialist realism and gradual acceptation of pluralism of artistic movements, as well as the emergence of the cultural debates followed with the export of Yugoslav art and culture westwards...

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