SRBIJA U NACIONALNOJ POLITICI KPJ NA KRAJU RATA
SERBIA IN THE NATIONAL POLICY OF KPJ AT THE END OF THE WAR

Summary/Abstract: The national policy of KPJ was based on its prewar concepts of Yugoslavia as an artificial creation, which must be broken up in order to free its various ethnic groups from Serbian oppression and hegemony. In the altered circumstances of war, these theories acquired some institutional forms but at the end of the war and in the period to follow, KPJ would definitely reorganized Yugoslavia according to the revolutionary premises it had defined long before. The outcome of this policy was that only Serbia was given a federal structure, which included a province and an autonomous region, later also to become a province. This was not done in any of the other Yugoslav federal units despite the fact that in several of them similar historical and other conditions would have justified the formation of provinces and autonomous regions. Furthermore, a great deal was made, in Serbia, of the issue of minorities and their recognition, regardless of the open animosity towards Yugoslavia, and Serbia especially, demonstrated by the minority groups during the war. Ironically, the results of colonization (both planned and otherwise) conducted by the fascists in Kosovo, Macedonia and Slavonia, were not annulled, while those of the agrarian reform and colonization carried out in prewar Yugoslavia in the regions of Macedonia and Kosovo were. The borders between the federal units were drawn subjects to much improvisation, without definite or uniform criteria and were qualified as being administrative and temporary. It is also true that country was governed by a strictly centralized system. Still, Yugoslavia was reorganized into a controversial federation with some elements of a confederation and there is no doubt that its federal units were in fact viewed as states of some sort, especially at the time the country’s first constitution was drawn up.

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